Your taxes keep rising—so why is Connecticut broke? Download PDF (see pdf for complete list) Connecticut residents pay the highest taxes in the entire country, second only to New York. Next year, lawmakers must close…
DOWNLOAD PDF **For the Full Study, Please Download the PDF File** Yankee Letter Connecticut has so many advantages for businesses: an educated population and some of the country’s best schools, a prime location midway between…
Download PDF Connecticut has 350 sources of revenue in the form of taxes and fees. One hundred and fifty of those revenue sources only bring in $10.5 million per year — that’s 0.05 percent of…
DOWNLOAD PDF **Download PDF to read full study. Download the full report data here. Download property tax/median income data here.** Yankee Letter: It is our local governments that we look to for many of the…
Paying more for a meal at a restaurant won’t just hurt your wallet, it may also hurt Connecticut’s economy, according to a new study. Yankee Institute released Taking a Bite out of Jobs: The Economic Effects…
DOWNLOAD PDF **Please download the PDF to read the full study** Yankee Letter Predictably, Connecticut’s budget languishes in perpetual deficit. This is because fixed costs like pension pay- ments and healthcare have risen faster than…
Download PDF **For full charts, graphs and citations, please download the PDF** Letter from the Yankee Institute Running a successful business in Connecticut is a challenge. The cost of doing business is high — not…
Download PDF Back On Track: Budget Reforms for the Long RunBy Joe Horvath, Assistant Policy DirectorSummary Five fiscal policy recommendations are outlined in this paper: priority-based budgeting, implementing the spending cap, pension reform, public employee…
DOWNLOAD PDF Connecticut's 360 Sources of Revenue (see pdf for complete list)Look for the red line - below that line are the bottom 200 sources of revenue, which bring in only $29.6 million. That's 0.15%…
Download PDF Follow the Debt“If one wants to determine where the next global financial crisis will start,” a prominent economist recently wrote, “one might well be advised to follow the debt.”Here in Connecticut, where we…
