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Ned Lamont: “Now we have over 100,000 jobs I've got to fill.”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont Discusses Economic Plans, Crime, and Reproductive Rights in CT22 Primetime Special

Published | Video Starts at 03:38

I mean, as you know, Dan, because you study this, we hadn't added a new job in the previous 30 or 40 years and we were flat as a pancake legacy businesses sort of leaning on our reputation. And Now we have over 100,000 jobs I've got to fill. That's because our economy in terms of these jobs is growing. And that's everything from advanced manufacturing to nurses to teachers to IT information technology, maybe even TV journalists, I'm not sure. (03:38–03:42)

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