Research

2010 Research

• July 1, 2010 – CTSunlight.org Update! We’ve updated CT Sunlight to include municipal payroll and pension data for more than 40 towns
• May 26, 2010 – CTSunlight.org Update! We’ve updated CTSunlight to include 2009 payroll data from the State of Connecticut
• May 25, 2010 – Connecticut’s Taxes and Fees 2010 – The Yankee Institute’s listing of all 347 sources of revenue for the State of Connecticut in 2009.  This also includes the popular Growth of State Government graph
• April 7, 2010 – Connecticut’s $51 Billion Unfunded Pension Liability – by J. Scott Moody and Wendy Warcholik
• March 22, 2010 – Tweet!CT – connect with your elected officials via the social networking application Twitter
March 22, 2010 – White Paper on Connecticut’s Health Insurance Rate Approval Process for the Individual Market by Tarren Bragdon of the Maine Heritage Policy Center and Yankee’s Fergus Cullen
March 4, 2010 – Best School Board Financial and Management Policies: Selected from a Sampling of School Districts in All States by Dr. Armand Fusco and Richard Fusco, provides examples of good school board policies for Citizens’ Audit Committees
March 1, 2010 – Dr. SustiNet’s Prescription for Big Government Health Care details how the SustiNet health care plan could be a budget buster for Connecticut
February 8, 2010 – CT Sunlight Project: An interactive website that allows users to track how state government spends every tax dollar
January 20, 2010 – Poll: Yankee Institute Poll Shows Widespread Discontent with Health Care Bill in Washington, D.C.

2009 Research

• December 9, 2009 – State Population versus Expenditure Growth as seen on Rick Green’s blog; A graphical analysis of Connecticut’s real state expenditures compared to population growth, 1971-2008 (adjusted for inflation to 2008 dollars)
• November 23, 2009 – Doggone Fido Fees by Tamara Tragakiss; A lighthearted look at how “Man’s Best Friend” has become a government mule
• October 29, 2009 – Slanting the Playing Field: Connecticut’s Publicly Funded Campaign Finance Scheme by Heath W. Fahle; An analysis of Connecticut’s publicly funded campaign system, the Citizens’ Election Program and its negative impact on the political landscape of Connecticut
• September 30, 2009 – Last One Out Please Turn Off the Lights by J. Scott Moody, M.A. and Wendy P. Warcholik Ph.D; A description of how out-migration has a negative impact on Connecticut’s fiscal outlook
• September 1, 2009 – Public versus Private Compensation: Avon by Malcolm McGough; A comparative analysis of private and public compensation in Avon
• August 15, 2009 – Nickels and Dimes: Connecticut’s Taxes and Fees by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy; Our widely popular flyer detailing all of Connecticut’s taxes and fees. NOTE: The flyer is printed with two folds. To view it on your computer, please rotate the file depending on which panel you are examining.
• August 8, 2009 – The Care and Feeding of Our Congressmen by Fergus Cullen MPA; Analyzing how Connecticut’s Members of Congress spent their Member Representational Allowances in 2007-2008
• July 16, 2009 – A Billion Dollars Up in Smoke by Tamara Tragakiss; An in-depth look at how Connecticut has spent Tobacco Settlement Funds
• June 24, 2009 – Understanding the Stimulus by Brian J. Gottlob; A look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funds are being spent in Connecticut
• June 24, 2009 – Citizens Audit Committees by Dr. Lewis Andrews; How to reduce property taxes by forming a Citizen’s Audit Committee in your town

2008 Research

• April 2008 – Three Cures For What’s Ailing Long Term Health Care by Dr. Lewis Andrews; Policy recommendations for lowering health care costs in Connecticut with a particular focus on long-term care

2007 Research

• December 2007 – Ending Corruption and Waste in Your Public School by Dr. Armand Fusco; An in-depth look at how waste, fraud and other abuses unnecessarily increase the cost of public education
• November 2007 – Serving Connecticut’s Neediest Citizens Through Job Training by Natalie Kindred; A policy brief on how job training can improve the quality of life for Connecticut’s poorest families
• September 2007 – Growing Connecticut’s Economy: Corporatism versus Capitalism by D. Dowd Muska; Suggesting pro-growth alternatives to Connecticut’s flawed economic development strategy
• May 2007 – A Primer on Connecticut’s Tax Burden; An overview of the tax burden in the Nutmeg State
• November 2007 – The Coming Crisis in Suburban Schools by Dr. Lewis Andrews; An assessment of how Connecticut’s public school system is reaching a crisis point

2006 Research

• August 2006 – Fifteen Years of Folly by D. Dowd Muska; A review of how Connecticut’s Income Tax has failed to live up to the expectations of its authors