Private-sector employment in Connecticut topped 1.38 million in August, new data show, bringing employment just above January 2011 levels. The figures, released by the state Labor Department, show Connecticut added 6,200 private jobs in August
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HARTFORD (October 15, 2021) — “Yankee Institute welcomes President Biden to our beautiful state. He’d be wise to remember that Connecticut has been a laboratory for many of the same misguided policies being promoted in the
“There is no public interest that is served by extending Governor Lamont’s emergency powers, as state lawmakers reportedly plan to do next week. Our state senators and representatives are fully capable of debating and voting
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By Ken Girardin with Daniel Gressel, Ph.D. Connecticut missed out on much of a decade-long national economic expansion. The state added essentially zero private-sector jobs between 2017 and 2019, its population was essentially
Ken Girardin’s, Director of Policy and Research, op-ed was published in The Wall Street Journal on May 16, 2021. When Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers called last week to reopen public schools
“The General Assembly has sided with public-sector unions over our taxpayers and our local governments. Governor Lamont has a choice to make: he can be a force for fiscal sanity in Hartford, or he can