As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Small businesses in Connecticut want to use federal COVID-19 relief money to pay down as much as $1 billion in unemployment insurance debt courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A nurse fills up a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a San Antonio senior center last month. Though President Trump initiated Operation Warp Speed, which yielded a successful COVID-19 vaccine, he also underestimated the health threats of the novel coronavirus.Sergio Flores /Getty Images
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My friend gives President Donald Trump credit for the fast production of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Trump did not take national action on this deadly pandemic in early 2020. In February, he told journalist Bob Woodward that the virus was deadly, though he had told the country it was like the flu.
A coalition of business organizations warned the state Wednesday not to balance mounting unemployment insurance fund debt on the backs of employers and urged lawmakers to utilize federal COVID-19 relief funds to bridge the gap instead.
Officials with the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Connecticut chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business, Connecticut Restaurant Association, he Connecticut Food Association, and Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce said the state faces a predicament similar to the recession of the late 2000s, when Connecticut, struggling to meet its unemployment benefits obligations, turned to higher taxes and special assessments.
Those measures hammered small businesses and stalled growth for six years, they said, and now, with the state Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund insolvent, policymakers have a chance to avoid making the same mistake twice.
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