The General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a bipartisan plan Tuesday afternoon to close most or all of the current budget deficit, immediately shifting the legislature’s focus to a far larger projected shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
March 29, 2016 @ 2:51 pm
Posted inJustice
Child sex slavery: No pimps convicted by state in last 10 years
While more than 400 children who have been sold for sex or forced labor have been referred to Connecticut’s child welfare agency in recent years, not a single person has been convicted in state court of trafficking in the last 10 years, according to top state legislators and the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
Posted inJustice, Money, Politics
Hundreds of state employees demand no layoffs or concessions
Hundreds of unionized state employees rallied Tuesday morning on the north steps of the Capitol, demanding that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and legislators abandon plans for layoffs and calls for wage and benefit concessions.
Posted inEducation
Board of Regents gives final okay to tuition hikes
The Board of Regents for Higher Education approved 3.5 to 5 percent tuition hikes for the 17 schools in the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system with only one dissenting vote.
Posted inEducation
Malloy rejects bill to tax Yale endowment earnings
Updated at 1:55 p.m.
A tax proposed by top legislators on the earnings of Yale’s sizable endowment was shot down Tuesday by the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut civil engineers to BOR — delay eliminating tech program
Three Rivers Community College consulted with the wrong constituents for terminating its Civil Engineering Tech program. Architects and construction managers (wrong industry) were consulted to terminate CET, not civil engineers and surveyors (correct industry).
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Why is Hartford broke?
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin recently said that Hartford is “in a state of fiscal emergency,” with projected budget deficits of 30 percent this year and into the future. Why is this happening? The short answer is that the City of Hartford can’t raise enough revenue to cover its costs. But this can’t be explained as solely a short-run or managerial problem.
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Regents, keep the Three Rivers civil engineering tech program
I am one of 80 students in the Three Rivers Community College’s civil engineering and environmental engineering technology programs who are urging the Board of Regents to save the civil engineering technology program. We want the Board of Regents to immediately delay its decision, now set for today, on terminating the program until the end of this summer to allow for a “cool down” period.
Posted inMoney
Is wealth leaving the state?
The claim that wealth is leaving the state is often discussed, but does the data back it up? We analyzed two decades of IRS statistics on income among people moving from state to state to see if we could answer that question.