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Connecticut is recovering from an economic downturn. But which one? Two years into the recovery, Connecticut’s economic growth trails the rest of the nation.
The University of Connecticut (UConn) attempted to subcontract non-union custodians at lower costs but failed to negotiate the ability to do so with the union. The UConn Facilities and Operations Department had recently moved two
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By Ken Girardin and E.J. McMahon The 2020 U.S. Census carried a troubling message for Connecticut. In a decade when the nation’s population increased by 7.4 percent, the headcount in the Constitution State
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By Ken Girardin Connecticut state officials have proposed entering the private health insurance business to assist residents who are either unable or struggling to afford coverage. Proponents hope to offer a “public option”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY By Alexia Boccuzzi, Meghan Portfolio, and Miles Stella Town and city websites play a crucial role in helping residents understand and participate in Connecticut’s distinctive system of local government. In the course of
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by Ken Girardin with analysis by Marc Joffe Most of Connecticut’s towns and cities face significant unfunded liabilities from pension and retiree healthcare benefits promised to current and former employees. In fact, these
Connecticut added more government jobs in July according to data released by the state Department of Labor (DOL) Aug. 18. Out of the total 6,500 new jobs, 3,900 (or 60%) were public sector positions, overshadowing
The US economy has officially recovered the private-sector jobs lost at the beginning of the pandemic, but Connecticut’s slow growth means it still has a way to go. June job numbers, released last week by
Enrollment in HUSKY, Connecticut’s Medicaid program, crept closer to the one-million mark in early 2022. According to the latest figures from the Department of Social Services, Medicaid enrollment is 997,880 or 28 percent of
INTRODUCTION About 124,000 Connecticut government employees belong to a labor union.[i] These include teachers, state agency employees, police officers and other municipal workers. Unlike their private-sector peers who operate under federal law, most public-sector union