Campaign for a Working Connecticut.

The Campaign for a Working Connecticut is a coalition that promotes the state’s economic competitiveness through the development of sustainable, effective workforce solutions to increase workers’ skills and advance families to self-sufficiency. In collaboration with local partners, National Skills Coaltion helped form the Campaign for a Working Connecticut and provides ongoing technical assistance.

Click here to contact the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, the convening organization for CWCT.

Key Partners

Major Efforts

With a new Governor elected and a quickly approaching 2011 legislative session, the Campaign for a Working Connecticut and National Skills Coalition held a webinar in November with workforce stakeholders from around Connecticut to begin thinking about big picture policy ideas for their state.

With National Skills Coalition, released Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs in October 2009, which generated widespread media attention. As part of National Skills Coalition’s Skills2Compete fly-in, representatives from CWCT met with members of Connecticut's Congressional Delegation in Washington, DC, to discuss report findings in November 2009.

Campaign for a Working Connecticut co-sponsored a press conference in 2009 on proposed cuts to job training and helped to get Workforce Investment Act funding approved in the absence of a state budget.

Publications and Resources

Reports:

Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs
National Skills Coalition and Campaign for a Working Connecticut
October 2009

Report | Press Release

 

 

Audio Clips:

Listen to audio clips from a press conference about the release of Connecticut's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs report.

Policy Agenda:

2012 State Legislative Agenda

Media List