Following an FTC report on grocery store profits, Tong’s office is seeking detailed cost and profit information from CT retail grocers.
Erica E. Phillips
Erica covered economic development for CT Mirror from 2021 to 2024. She is now CT Mirror's state policy editor. Before moving to Connecticut to join the staff, Erica worked in Los Angeles for public radio’s Marketplace and, before that, for the Wall Street Journal's L.A. bureau. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minn., graduated from Haverford College and earned a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: Women’s businesses eclipse men’s
Erica E. Phillips writes about the growth of CT’s women-owned businesses and a decline in the ‘quits rate’ among American workers.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT gets ‘creative’ with ARPA-funded efforts to expand labor pool
CT’s CareerConneCT program targets groups with historically low participation in the labor force. So far, it’s placed 1,200 people in jobs.
Posted inEducation
CT lawmakers want $100 million for child care ‘trust fund’
The proposed fund, modeled after a New Mexico initiative, would allow CT to ‘actually do things’ in a Blue Ribbon Panel child care plan.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: Data centers and power
Erica E. Phillips writes about potential data center development in CT and sports betting amid the NCAA March Madness tournament.
Posted inEconomic Development
Is CT’s film and TV tax credit program in its final season?
Amid budget constraints, legislative leaders from both parties favor ending the tax credits, but ESPN, NBC and actors are pushing back.
Posted inCities & Towns
Can CT towns work together? Lamont envisions more sharing
Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed legislation to enable more regional collaboration, helping town leaders work together by sharing services.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: How transit drives CT’s economy
Erica E. Phillips writes about a new bus route that will service a sprawling CT office park and the redevelopment of blighted former industrial sites.
Posted inEconomic Development
Legislature seeks data center study; Concerns raised over delays
A proposal to study how data centers affect CT’s electric grid is drawing opposition from some who say it would delay critical development.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: Why exports matter to CT
Erica E. Phillips writes about the CT General Assembly’s UK-CT Friendship Caucus and potential next steps for CTNext.
Posted inEconomic Development
Has CT’s advanced manufacturing sector stopped advancing?
Fewer jobs and a lack of investment in the high-tech future of manufacturing in CT is ‘a ticking time bomb,’ a new report says.
Posted inEconomic Development
Without bond funding, CTNext lays off staff, winds down operations
For nearly three years, one of CT’s marquee organizations supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, CTNext, hasn’t received bond funding.
Posted inEducation
Lamont’s child care overhaul plan gets plenty of pushback
The $43.4 million child care plan could come at the expense of K-12 funding — and doesn’t go as far as a Blue Ribbon Panel had recommended.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: Lawmakers roll up their sleeves
Erica E. Phillips writes about the beginning of CT’s 2024 legislative session and UConn women’s basketball.
Posted inMoney
A tax break for CT residents working remotely for NY companies? Maybe, but there’s a catch
Under the proposal, CT residents would get the tax break if they sue New York to recoup taxes paid between 2020 and 2023 — and win.
