Any special session where the medicine would be worse than the cure is pure folly. But some legislators are advocating for a special session to craft a deal that would allow for the creation of […]
Frank Ricci, Yankee Institute’s Labor Fellow, joined the Todd Feinburg Show July 20, 2023, to discuss the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court Janus decision, and how labor unions are using “salting” — a tactic of […]
Who Let the Rat Out of Its Cage? Connecticut Inside Investigator (CII) reported on Monday (July 17) that leadership of the state House of Representatives is exploring the possibility of a special session this fall. […]
While the three-year low unemployment rate at 3.7% remained “unchanged,” the private and public sectors suffered a setback last month in the amount of jobs recovered since the pandemic, according to a new Department of […]
Dropping this weekend, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” aims to become, quite literally, one of the largest films ever put to screen. The epic film chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist and director of […]
What do you do with a subsidy program that isn’t needed and not producing anticipated results? If you are the state of Connecticut, you grow the program. As of June 28, the state has started […]
Tax Dollars Hard at Work What do you do with a subsidy program that isn’t needed and not producing anticipated results? If you are the state of Connecticut, you grow the program. As of June […]
A ‘Vacancy’ sign is flashing on office spaces in the Greater Hartford market that suffered a new all-time high availability rate of nearly 30 percent, according to a new report. Conducted by CBRE, a global leader […]
The Teamsters Local 671, of Bloomfield, is teaming up with the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to recruit individuals to infiltrate businesses with the explicit objective of unionizing the workplace. In a June 23 […]
Baseball is relatively popular in Connecticut. Last year, more than 400,000 fans passed through the turnstiles at Dunkin’ Donuts Park to cheer the Hartford Yard Goats — nearly achieving pre-pandemic attendance records. Yet the […]
The Connecticut State Legislature will begin its 2023 session on January 4th and will adjourn on June 7th. The “long session,” as non-election years are called in Hartford, will be centered around the biennial budget. The Office of the State Comptroller reports that state government found a way to spend $47.11 billion in 2022 and, if trends continue, we can expect that number to grow even more going forward. Concerns over energy prices, inflation, and general cost of living continue to dominate the headlines and the threat of a recession hovers over economic forecasts.
What will our elected officials be working on to improve policy outcomes for Connecticut residents? What tax reform proposals will there be? What can be done to lower home heating bills? How will state and local budgets be affected by fewer federal resources? How will schools be implementing to curriculum requirements?
While we wait to see the thousands of individual and committee bills that while dominate the myriad policy debates this year, Yankee Institute is hard at work promoting free-market solutions to the problems we face from Stamford to Putnam and Mystic to Salisbury. To that end, we have produced a new edition of our Charter for Change. The Charter provides commonsense reforms to make Connecticut’s government work for its residents.
Though the list of reforms may be exhausting to review, it is far from exhaustive! And that’s why we want to work with you to build a broad-based coalition to encourage sound policy reforms to enable Connecticut residents to forge a better future for themselves and their families.
It’s also imperative that we do so. As we noted in a report and CT Mirror op-ed last year, the debate over whether we’re in a national recession really misses the point for Connecticut residents. We had more people employed in the private sector in 2007 than we do today. Our economy has grown at one of the slowest rates in the nation for the past decade, and we are getting outpaced year after year. We’re not attracting innovation and industry. We’re losing some of our best and brightest as they seek other parts of the country where it’s easier to make a living.
But together, we can reverse this trend.
At Yankee Institute, we know Connecticut is a state with boundless opportunity, and we intend to help make our state more than a place where people are just able to make ends meet! Connecticut should be a place where everyone can thrive – and with your help, it will be.