Significant Job Growth in Connecticut in 2024

July 19, 2024


I have some wonderful news to share. We are seeing encouraging job numbers in our state in 2024. I'll break down how our economy is booming in the first half of the year.

Did you know that 44 Connecticut companies have played a role in the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program? Please keep scrolling to learn more about our state's contributions ahead of Space Exploration Day!

Here are the sections of today's email:

  • Connecticut Job Growth
  • Statewide Campaign to Combat Speeding
  • Space Exploration Day
 
Connecticut Job Growth
 
Statewide Campaign to Combat Speeding
A statewide campaign is underway to urge drivers to slow down on our roadways. The Connecticut Department of Transportation, local police, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are working together to promote safer driving with more speed limit enforcement. The campaign runs through September 5. 
There is urgency to address this issue. In 2022, 115 people died in Connecticut from speeding and reckless driving. Speeding accounts for about one-third of all traffic-related fatalities nationally. It is a form of reckless driving that jeopardizes everyone’s safety. According to NHTSA, in 2022, 87% of all speeding-related traffic fatalities on American roads occurred on non-interstate roadways.

For more information about the dangers of speeding, visit nhtsa.gov.
 
Space Exploration Day 

Ahead of National Space Exploration Day, which is Saturday, let’s give a shoutout to the 44 Connecticut companies who had a prominent role in the Artemis1 mission! 
 
BY THE NUMBERS:

44 Connecticut companies are supplied NASA with products for Artemis

23 companies supplied NASA’s Space Launch System rocket

14 companies provided critical materials for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which was built to take humans farther in space than ever before

10 companies manufactured supplies for Exploration Ground Systems based at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

One company supported development work for NASA’s Human Landing System Program, which was the final mode of transportation that took astronauts to the lunar surface throughout Artemis

One company worked on Gateway, a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon that provides essential support for long-term, human missions to the lunar surface and serves as a staging point for deep space exploration.