HARTFORD – Fergus Cullen, Executive Director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, issues the following statement in response to SEBAC’s complaint to the Attorney General: “There are two groups of people in Connecticut: Those […]
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Connecticut Survey of 500 Likely VotersConducted June 9, 2011By Pulse Opinion Research for Yankee Institute for Public Policy 1. How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly […]
HARTFORD – According to a new tally by the Yankee Institute, the State of Connecticut will impose at least 77 separate tax increases over 24 categories as part of the changes recently made by the […]
Connecticut Survey of 500 Likely Voters Conducted February 20, 2011By Pulse Opinion Research for Yankee Institute for Public Policy1* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly […]
Yesterday, the Pew Center on the States released a nationwide study of state pension funding shortfalls. The Center’s survey of the states found that 31 out of 50 states were below the 80 percent funded […]
Today’s Hartford Courant featured a front page article discussing Yankee’s recent release of a list of 24 retired state employees who receive pension payments in excess of the governor’s salary of $150,000. Larry Dorman, a […]
HARTFORD – Pensions for two dozen retired state employees exceeded the governor’s salary of $150,000 in 2010, according to new data posted to the Yankee Institute’s CT Sunlight Project (www.ctsunlight.org). A total of 378 retired […]
by Nick Dranias and Fergus Cullen No one particularly likes negative political ads. Having them paid for with tax dollars is worse. But what’s most offensive is when government uses public funds to help some […]
Check out this video of Cato’s Ed Crane at an event in Florida. He talked about reducing federal intrusion into the lives of citizens. Under Ed’s leadership, the Cato Institute has grown to become one of the […]
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Free Speech Case Affecting Connecticut In 10 Days HARTFORD – Oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in McComish v Bennett, an important free speech case concerning taxpayer funded […]
