The COVID-19 pandemic has rightly led to high praise and support by lawmakers and state officials for hospitals that face potentially overwhelming numbers of infected patients and for small businesses that have been forced to…
unemployment insurance
Connecticut had roughly half of the money needed to weather a recession in its unemployment trust fund before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the state, according to a report from the Tax Foundation which tracked unemployment…
Yankee Institute is grateful to Gov. Ned Lamont and his team for their work, thus far, in trying to mitigate the economic damage being wrought on Connecticut during this time of crisis and for their…
The Connecticut Department of Labor has been passing around hand-outs to lawmakers touting a new administrative tax meant to fund DOL’s staffing costs as a way to grow Connecticut’s economy. The DOL proposed a small…
Figures from the Connecticut Department of Labor show that employers rarely appeal an unemployment award, even if the employee quit voluntarily or was fired. Those low figures may be due to very low expectations by…
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