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Younger businesses have larger share of minority, women owners

By Jake Kara | September 1, 2016

About 7 percent, or 4,884, of Connecticut businesses with paid employees are less than two years old, according to new Census data made public Thursday. The U.S. Census Bureau published its inaugural 2014 “Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs” data, a survey that is meant to supplement the Survey of Business Owners done every five years. Information about the age of businesses is new in this data set. The survey estimates there are 67,920 firms with paid employees in Connecticut. Firms without employees were not included in this data set.

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Incentive program: Behind on audits, but ahead on jobs, so far

Explore how businesses have formed and fared in Connecticut

The DJI Phantom is a popular drone capable of carrying a camera.

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Subsidies: How much businesses get from taxpayer assistance in CT

By Andrew Ba Tran | February 17, 2016

More than $4 billion in state and federal subsidies were given to businesses in Connecticut since 1999.

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The big increase in airline baggage fees over time

By Andrew Ba Tran and Jake Kara | November 25, 2015

In 2014, Delta Air Lines charged more than $860 million in baggage fees.

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Are workers’ comp violations more common where income disparity is high?

By Jake Kara | November 12, 2015

A pair of researchers sought to find out whether certain labor violations were concentrated in areas with more intense economic inequality. They shared their work with Trend CT.

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Violations by CT firms of federal environmental, safety laws around U.S.

By Andrew Ba Tran | November 11, 2015

We previously looked at which towns in Connecticut were affected the most by corporate health, environmental and safety violations, but this time we wanted to see which corporations from Connecticut were fined for violating laws across the country.

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Nail salons per town in Connecticut

By Andrew Ba Tran | August 19, 2015

TrendCT wanted to analyze the numbers of nail salons in Connecticut but statistics were difficult to find. So we turned to Yelp.

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