Facing the nation’s worst record of job creation, Democrats and Republicans in Connecticut last week tried something drastic: cooperation. In a one-day special session, they passed virtually unanimously a $626 million economic development package developed over six weeks of negotiations.
The state has had no net gain in employment in the last 22 years. At a time of political warfare in Washington and elsewhere and gridlock over President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, members of both parties took a rare collective victory lap after the passage of the jobs bill, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed Thursday.
“How often do you see this happening in Washington?” Malloy, a Democrat elected last year, said in a statement after the legislation passed Wednesday night. “Putting people back to work and making Connecticut more business-friendly aren’t goals owned by any one party, and they aren’t owned by any one branch of government.”
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