Connecticut’s Great Depression May Be Over
12 Mar 2019
Economic Development
Big news! Going by third-quarter state gross domestic product data that were just released, Connecticut’s economy is on track to grow more than 2 percent in 2018! That’s … not much. But it’s better growth than the state has seen in more than a decade.
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