It’s official: CT’s budget is $89 million to $100 million in the red
The state budget received its first official deficit reports Friday when nonpartisan legislative analysts and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration projected shortfalls ranging from $89 million to...
View ArticleMalloy gets two extra weeks to solve next budget deficit
Despite insisting throughout the campaign that state government really wasn’t facing a deficit next year, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy asked for and received legislative approval Wednesday to postpone his...
View ArticleMalloy doesn’t get predicted revenue boost, big deficits remain
Connecticut’s economy has not eased the state’s budget crisis as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy predicted on the campaign trail last year. A new analysts’ report Thursday found tax receipts and other revenues...
View ArticleDiaper on, Connecticut! (And let’s lose the diaper tax)
It's time for Connecticut legislators to free families from the diaper tax, giving them and their children the same boost as states like Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Jersey. The Connecticut Office...
View ArticleConnecticut two steps closer to educational equity
On May 19, the Connecticut legislature took two important strides in an attempt to achieve educational equity. On that day the Senate passed bill SB 398 and the House passed HB 6844. If these bills...
View ArticleConnecticut death penalty ruling ends costly, ineffective policy
The Connecticut Supreme Court’s ruling that our state’s capital punishment law is unconstitutional has fulfilled all of the objectives of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty. The...
View ArticleGutting legislature’s program review staff makes no sense
Out of left field on May 4, the legislature’s bipartisan efficiency committee, Program Review & Investigations, took a direct hit of 50 percent of its personnel in the negotiated budget. The...
View ArticlePrepared food tax will hit consumers harder than lawmakers thought
A controversial tax hike on prepared foods will rake in $158 million over next two years.
View ArticleSome lawmakers want to raid the rainy day fund. Not so fast, analysts say.
Nonpartisan analysts reminded lawmakers Wednesday that the next recession could be right around the corner.
View ArticleState OT costs continue to creep up, but salary expenses remain way down
State agency overtime expenses continue to rise, according to a new report, but overall salary costs remain below those of a decade ago.
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