Thompson unpacked an unsettling portrait of employment in Connecticut, beginning with the mainstay finance, insurance and real estate sector. The sector accounted for 8.6 percent of the state’s employment in 2007, prior to the beginning of the last recession. But in 2013, nearly three years after the state technically emerged from recession, the percentage was 8 percent, and, in 2019, it is still lower, at 7.5 percent.