 state. Fazio says this could be framed as a battle between cities and towns, but he says all municipalities would be losers if this passes. Connecticut's labor market added more than 3,300 jobs in June. The State Department of Labor reports June was the sixth straight month of job growth in Connecticut. The state has now recovered 105 percent of the jobs that were lost in the early days of the pandemic. Connecticut's unemployment rate 3.9 percent in June, down from 4.3 percent a month earlier.