Updated at 2:02 p.m.: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a $19 billion budget Wednesday that — among many other proposals — would give tax breaks to middle-income households, consumers and towns while limiting spending growth to just under 3 percent.
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Home care, Medicaid pay, inmate health care in Malloy proposal
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget expands home care programs, creates a new medical assistance program for ex-inmates and provides money to pay primary doctors who treat Medicaid patients. It doesn’t offer any respite to hospitals.
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Malloy proposes universal preschool access
The governor is proposing that every child in Connecticut have access to preschool by 2018.
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Malloy, legislators begin sprint to November as 2014 session opens
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state legislators begin writing the narrative for their campaigns today as the governor delivers his budget address on the first full day of the General Assembly’s three-month election-year session.
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Leonardi cool on federal regulation of insurance industry
Connecticut’s insurance commissioner told members of Congress Tuesday he has serious reservations about extending federal oversight of the insurance industry. Thomas Leonardi, commissioner of Connecticut’s Insurance Department, was invited by a Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee to weigh in on new federal oversight of the insurance industry, which is largely regulated by the […]
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Blumenthal pushes bill to prevent Target-like data breaches
Washington – As executives from Target and Neiman Marcus prepared to tell a Senate panel how hackers stole personal information from millions of their customers, Sen. Richard Blumenthal introduced a new data security bill.
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Malloy wants a $10.10 minimum wage in Connecticut by 2017
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants Connecticut to be the first state to commit to meeting President Obama’s goal of a $10.10 minimum wage, proposing a series of increases Tuesday that would reach the mark on Jan. 1, 2017. One Republican opponent cautiously embraced the idea.
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Election-year politics, future deficit, limit CT budget options
Election-year politics. A large future deficit. A sticky constitutional cap. Budget obstacles are everywhere as legislators return Wednesday to the Capitol for the 2014 General Assembly session.
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CT has highest rate of families leaving state, but population is increasing
Although more families may be leaving Connecticut than are moving in, the state’s population still increased between 2003 and 2012, Census Bureau statistics show.
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Malloy would expand renters’ aid to 12,700 Connecticut seniors
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed expanding a renters’ rebate program to serve an additional 12,700 low-income elderly residents next fiscal year, ending a controversial freeze that originated in his administration.
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Economists: Connecticut must lean less on Wall Street
The economy may be improving, but Connecticut leaders better not count on a return to the ‘boom-boom’ years of the 1980s and ’90s.
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Malloy offers modest tax breaks for retired CT teachers, consumers
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed a second round of tax cuts Friday, including a new income tax break for retired teachers that could provide a strategic edge in his re-election bid.
The governor also backed a sales tax exemption for non-prescription medications, an insurance premium break for cities and towns, extending a credit for business investors and a two-day state park fee holiday.
These breaks, worth about $52 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, would be in addition to the $155 million sales and gasoline tax rebate Malloy unveiled Thursday.
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Governor gets 1,240 pages of requested changes from CT residents
Thousands of people from across the state wrote Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after he asked residents to let him know about obsolete, burdensome, or otherwise ineffective state regulations. Here are a few highlights.
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Connecticut women victims of pay gap
Washington – Despite the state’s progressive bent, women in Connecticut earn only about 78 percent of what men make, a gender-wage gap close to the national disparity. The finance, defense, information technology, medical and scientific research industries that hire many people in Connecticut all have large gender-wage disparities.
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430 homeless people take shelter
New Haven — Two-hundred eight-seven single adults. Forty-two families, which breaks down to 64 adults and 79 children. All those people slept in beds that didn’t belong to them, either in shelters or in transitional housing, on a single frigid evening this week.