Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has made workforce development a key issue going into his second term, and his two-year, $50.5 billion budget proposal sets aside tens of millions of dollars to address it … more
Separately, BioLaunch is a training program run by Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology, aka ConnCAT. Funded by $2.5 million in state money, it will train two cohorts a year of 15 people from the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods aged 18 – 26 with GEDs to work as lab techs in biotechnology and life sciences laboratories. The participants will get paid during the program, including at internships with local biopharma companies … more