We don’t get to say these words nearly enough, so we’re giving him a great big shout out: GOVERNOR MALLOY, YOU DID THE RIGHT THING. Yesterday the Malloy Administration told state agency leaders that the 3 percent pay raises nearly 2,000 non-union staff and political appointees expected to receive this Thursday have been cancelled.
We at the Yankee Institute support the Governor’s budget plan. We know it is a bitter pill. Like you, we agonize over the hardships it will impose on some of the most vulnerable residents of our state. But even so, we have concluded that, at this point, it is necessary to make these difficult cuts in order to put the state back on a more sustainable path.
Apparently, a “permanent fiscal crisis” isn’t enough to keep him busy. Gov. Malloy has now proposed legislation to prohibit businesses from forbidding their employees to disclose their wages. As is evident from its history, the Yankee Institute believes in transparency. The free flow of information is an important part both ...
Although Connecticut’s median income has decreased by 4% (inflation-adjusted) since he took office, Gov. Dannel Malloy nonetheless just handed out 3%-12% salary increases to political appointees. Too often, it seems like the government elite gets to live by a different set of rules than those for the taxpayers who subsidize them. Of ...
Many in Connecticut have just celebrated Christmas — some making do with less, all spending their hard-earned money to find just the right gift for the special people in their lives. Up in Hartford, Gov. Dannel Malloy played Santa Claus, too — but with your money. Despite a deficit of $31.6 million ...
The chairman of Yankee Institute’s board, Rob Simmons, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal piece discussing the outcome of Connecticut’s gubernatorial race. Of course, as a 501(c)(3), Yankee Institute does not participate in partisan politics. But given Yankee’s mission to develop and advance policies that offer opportunity, ensure fairness and ...