EAST HARTFORD – The retired state employee with the largest pension benefit in 2013 was former Professor John Veiga, who received $283,273 according to new data compiled by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy for its online transparency database CTSunlight.org. Veiga has had the largest pension benefit in the state ...
EAST HARTFORD – Gov. Dan Malloy was Connecticut’s 1,379th highest paid state employee in 2013 according to new data compiled by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy for its online transparency database CTSunlight.org. The Governor’s salary is set by state statute at $150,000. There were 1,378 state employees who received ...
STAMFORD – The featured speaker at the Yankee Institute’s Policy Luncheon had a clear message for Connecticut’s policymakers and opinion leaders: “Fix the state’s unfunded liabilities now!” Curtis Dubay, a Connecticut native and Senior Tax Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. spoke to nearly 60 Yankee Institute ...
In an op-ed for CT News Junkie, Yankee Institute Deputy Director Heath Fahle compares Connecticut to its next-door neighbor Rhode Island in terms of each state’s approach to pension and Medicaid reform. The result? Rhode Island is making the hard decisions while Connecticut lags behind. Faced with the same problem ...
The State of Connecticut employs nearly 50,000 people on a full-time basis and like most employers, they provide benefits to help employees plan for their retirement. Unlike most private sector employers, however, public employees are provided a defined-benefit retirement plan that provides benefits as calculated by a complicated formula rather ...
Connecticut collects revenue from at least 371 unique sources of revenue, but the bottom 200 don’t even produce 1 percent of total state revenue. Are these really worth keeping? Yankee examines the issue in Too Small to Keep. The research from the Yankee Institute reveals that most state agencies actually ...