HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2023: The state's largest business organization issued the following response to today's release of the September 2023 employment report. CBIA president and CEO Chris DiPentima called the addition of 3,300 jobs in September "a positive sign," despite the downward revision of the August numbers. "The August revisions, from an initially reported gain of 2,10  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 20 -- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven issued the following news: The Liberty Bank Foundation is helping increase new resources for Greater New Haven entrepreneurs with its second grant to the New Haven Equitable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NHE3). Liberty has given a total of $100,000 to the NHE3, a resource support network designed to help business owners in neighborhoods that have historically lacked investment. "This grant from the Liberty Bank Foun  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- The Connecticut Health Foundation issued the following news release: Grants from the Connecticut Health Foundation will support advocacy efforts to expand health care coverage to more immigrants and to ensure that those who are eligible can get covered. Connecticut has significantly reduced the number of state residents without health insurance in the past decade, but approximately 175,000 people remain without coverage. Among those most likely to lac  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 21 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release on Oct. 20, 2023: A judge has denied Shell Oil's latest attempt to throw out a climate lawsuit from Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). The lawsuit alleges that Shell's oil terminal in New Haven has left nearby waters and neighborhoods at imminent risk of being inundated with oil and toxic chemicals in the event of floods and other extreme weather driven by climate change. The company filed a mot  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, Oct. 20 -- The Security Industry Association issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2023: ISC East, the Northeast's leading security and public safety event built by RX Global, hosted in collaboration with premier sponsor the Security Industry Association (SIA) and in partnership with ASIS NYC, is proud to present an expansive slate of keynote speakers and educational programming at this year's conference. ISC East attendees are invited to participate in all program  more

WINDSOR, Connecticut, Oct. 18 -- LIMRA issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: To meet the increasingly unique needs its members are facing, LIMRA today announced the expansion of its custom and consortia research program. LIMRA's Applied Research Solutions will offer consultative research design and delivery to clients looking for fresh insights and approaches to company- or industry-specific challenges. Leveraging the association's broader industry benchmarking and topical resear  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Oct. 20 -- The National Council on Family Relations issued the following news release: The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is pleased to recognize Rachel R. Tambling, Ph.D., LMFT, and Amber Vennum, Ph.D., LMFT, CFLE, as the 2023 recipients of the Kathleen Briggs Outstanding Mentor Award. This award acknowledges an outstanding mentor of graduate students and new professionals in the field of marriage and family therapy (MFT). Dr. Tambling (she/her) is a professo  more

DANBURY, Connecticut, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: Today, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) launched a new education series in English and Spanish titled, "Rare Disease Drug Development: What Patients and Advocates Need to Know," designed to help patients and patient advocacy groups understand the drug development process. "The goal of this educational series is to engage the rare disease   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release on Oct. 12, 2023: Navigating the workforce crisis and the high cost of doing business in Connecticut are key challenges for manufacturers according to a new report. The 2023 Connecticut Manufacturing Report, produced by CBIA and affiliates CONNSTEP and ReadyCT, and made possible with the support of RSM, found that for the second consecutive year, 86% of manufacturers r  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, Oct. 19 -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news: Representatives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) held a meeting on October 17 and 18, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was the thirty-third in a series of meetings between the FASB and the ASBJ to further the Boards' cooperative efforts to develop high-quality global accounting standards. At this meeting, representatives of t  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Oct. 18 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: More than 1,000 children have reportedly been killed in 11 days of airstrikes on Gaza--one child every 15 minutes[1]--with children making up a third of total fatalities in Gaza, Save the Children said on Tuesday, calling for an immediate ceasefire. At least 1,300 people   more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Oct. 18 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following statement on Oct. 17, 2023: * * * A school and a hospital in Gaza have been hit today, reportedly killing several hundred civilians. Save the Children calls for an immediate ceasefire to protect children's lives. A hospital in the center of Gaza City was struck this evening, with initial estimates ind  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Oct. 17 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following statement on Oct. 16, 2023: * * * Families in western Afghanistan are reeling after a fourth earthquake in just over a week hit Herat Province, crumbling buildings and forcing people to flee once again, with thousands now living in tents exposed to fierce winds and dust storms. The latest 6.3 magnitud  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The Conference of State Bank Supervisors issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Forty-four state agencies have reached settlements with ACI Payments, Inc., for erroneously initiating electronic transactions totaling $2.3 billion from the accounts of 480,000 mortgage-holders serviced by Mr. Cooper (formerly known as Nationstar Mortgage, LLC). State regulators levied $10 million in fines through a multistate enforcement action led by regulators from Arkansas, C  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 19 -- Save the Sound issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: In response to the Department of Environmental Conservation's announcement of new water quality criteria for the waters surrounding New York City and up to the Bear Mountain Bridge, Riverkeeper, the leading environmental organization dedicated to protecting the Hudson River, and Save the Sound, the leading environmental organization dedicated to protecting Long Island Sound, call on New York St  more