The personal income growth for Connecticut residents was the slowest in the nation in 2017, according to a report by Pew Charitable Trusts. Personal income in Connecticut for 2017 actually dipped .6 percent into the negative, and the residents’ personal income growth rate since 2007 has been an anemic .6 percent.
Connecticut’s government spending outpaced the state's gross domestic product by a wide margin since 1990, according to a review of past figures compiled at U.S. Government Spending, an online database of state and federal spending.
A financial stress test of all fifty states by Moody’s Analytics showed that Connecticut is unprepared should the country experience another recession - even a moderate one. Connecticut was one of the bottom 15 states that were “substantially unprepared” for an economic downturn, which would lower tax revenue and increase state service needs to help those affected by a recession.
Connecticut has long been known for having a high population of wealthy individuals, but according to a recent report Connecticut has fallen far behind other states in producing new millionaires. Among the nine states which have the highest number of millionaires, Connecticut had the slowest growth in the number of households earning over $1 million, according to a report by the New York-based Empire Center for Public Policy.
Connecticut’s apprenticeship program presents a great opportunity for young people like Jake, but constraints on the number of apprentices an employer can hire may limit that opportunity for many others.
Everyone knows that living in Connecticut is expensive, but how far will $100 get you in the Nutmeg State? A state-by-state study conducted by the Tax Foundation purports to answer that very question. Using the 2014 price index from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Tax Foundation found that in Connecticut $100 only translates to $91.91 in actual purchasing power.