Immigrants Make New Haven Connecticuts Fastest-Growing City
WNPR January 21, 2015
[Excerpt] A new report shows an influx of immigrants to New Haven since 2000 has made it the fastest growing city in Connecticut.… Read More
Local Immigrants Thrive; Majority Here Legally
New Haven Independent January 21, 2015
[Excerpt] A new report shares little-known facts about New Haven’s immigrants: They are more likely than native-born citizens to be employed; an increasingly large number come from Asia; and only a small percentage is undocumented.… Read More
Report: Transit’s Not Keeping Up With “Job Sprawl”
New Haven Independent January 18, 2015
[Excerpt] The jobs are out in the suburbs. The workers live in the city. The bus often can’t connect the two.… Read More
Report: Lack of transportation in Greater New Haven keeps people out of workforce
New Haven Register January 16, 2015
[Excerpt] According to the report, New Haven has been adding high-paying jobs since 2000 that go primarily to college graduates, and only 4 percent of 47,000 jobs paying more than $20 per hour are held by residents of the city’s low-income neighborhoods. Most of the living-wage jobs in New Haven — 81 percent — are held by out-of-towners. SCRCOG Executive Director Carl Amento called the problem “this mismatch between where the jobs are and where the people are.” … Read More
Access to transportation in Greater New Haven key for employment, COG study finds
New Haven Register November 23, 2014
[Excerpt] This will not come as big news to anyone who depends on the bus — or two or three buses — to get to work, but a new area study has found that the more spread out and off-the-bus-line jobs are, the harder it is for people who ride the bus to get jobs.… Read More
What the Doctor Ordered: Urban Farming
New York Times November 6, 2014
[Excerpt] At a dead-end street in a blighted section of this city, crumbling roofs of old factories, smokestacks and the Interstate 95 overpass loom overhead, casting long shadows on an October afternoon. Along one end of a field, children play soccer; on the other, men stand around motorcycles, sipping from beer cans.… Read More
