The Connecticut Restaurant Association estimates that as many as 600 restaurants have closed permanently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent business restrictions but another wave of closures in the leisure and hospitality…
Economy
The number of people working or looking for work in Connecticut, known as the labor force, decreased by about 3,000 people in 2015, according to the latest jobs report released Monday by the state Department of…
[caption id="attachment_3750" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Copyright Mazzam, 2015. Used under license from Shutterstock.com[/caption] With the news that General Electric is leaving Fairfield for Boston fresh in the mind of lawmakers, 2016 can be a year…
[caption id="attachment_3739" align="alignright" width="300"] Image copyright Phase4Studios, 2015.Used under license from Shutterstock.com.[/caption] General Electric announced this week it would move its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston, Mass., highlighting the need for policies focused on increasing…
Connecticut’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad 2015 Legislative Session by Suzanne Bates | Jul 7, 2015 | Yankee News | 0 comments By 1 a.m. on June 30, most of the dark-suited lobbyists had left…
Yankee Institute Study Explains Legal Limits Imposed By Spending Cap Connecticut lawmakers regularly find themselves tiptoeing at the edge of the law while writing the state’s budget. To clarify exactly where that edge lies, the…
Connecticut would have $5.2 billion more in its rainy day fund if lawmakers had kept spending under the state’s constitutional spending cap, according to a new Yankee Institute policy brief. The Yankee Institute is urging…
New research released today by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, in conjunction with the Liberty Foundation, shows that one in 20 Connecticut residents has given up looking for work since 2008. The state’s labor…
We've long talked about the challenges our state faces, most memorably in the "list of lasts." The Roadmap to Renewal is Connecticut's pathway to more jobs, better schools and a higher quality of life. View the…
You can expect some liberal populist triumphalism about the fact that, over the last six months, the 13 states that raised the minimum wage gained jobs faster than the states that didn't. It'd be great…