New Poll Shows 75 Percent of Connecticut Residents Support Right to Work Poll Highlights National Employee Freedom Week, Grassroots Campaign to Educate Union Employees about their Rights EAST HARTFORD – A recent poll shows 75 […]
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You can expect some liberal populist triumphalism about the fact that, over the last six months, the 13 states that raised the minimum wage gained jobs faster than the states that didn’t. It’d be great […]
Check out Raising Hale — there’s an eyebrow-raising report on how, thanks to the First Five (the state’s primary economic development program under Governor Malloy’s leadership), taxpayers have ended up subsidizing shorter commutes for five CEO’s.
Don’t take it from us — take it from the Economist. A recent piece there finds that Connecticut merits only a “D” for its overall friendliness to small business. That means it’s better only than […]
Connecticut was already on the hook to offer $115 million of taxpayer money to Bridgewater Associates — the Westport hedge fund with $150 billion under management — if it would move from Westport to Stamford. The move may have […]
State, SEIU can’t force workers to pay EAST HARTFORD – Harris v. Quinn, one of the Supreme Court decisions announced earlier today, has distinct implications for Connecticut workers. In that case, the justices ruled that […]
Yesterday morning, Yankee Institute president Carol Platt Liebau was a guest on WATR-Waterbury’s “Talk of the Town” with Larry Rifkin (and she’ll be joining Pastor Will on WTIC tomorrow). One of the most interesting parts of […]
It’s the kind of information that’s released on a summer Friday — when no one’s supposed to be paying attention — for a reason. After all the self-congratulation about how well Connecticut’s version of ObamaCare is “working,” it’s […]
Hartford is a city plagued with a variety of public policy problems — not least the misuse of city funds and other financial mismanagement. And it’s afflicted by a host of urban ills — including a poverty rate second only to […]
