The CT Community Nonprofit Alliance recently wrote to Gov. Ned Lamont, asking that he and legislators set aside $100 million to assist agencies.
2020 State Budget
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On budget, Dems say GOP prefers heckling to haggling
For only the second time in a decade, minority Republicans in the legislature have failed to propose a new state budget. But that doesn’t mean they’ve stayed silent about Democratic plans.
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Despite committee inaction, tolls and pension cost-sharing proposals remain alive
Two key issues – tolls and teacher pension costs – weren’t voted out of the finance committee this week. But that doesn’t mean either issue is dead.
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Democrats push back on Lamont, renew bid to tax CT’s wealthiest households
One day after gutting a 2 percent surcharge on capital gains earnings by wealthy households, the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee was expected to revive the bill.
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Growing CT revenues: Too much of a good thing?
Burgeoning state revenues are making it harder for Gov. Ned Lamont to convince his fellow Democrats in the legislature to raise taxes, defer pension debt payments and adopt a lean budget.
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For now, legislators defer to Lamont on capital gains
On spending and taxes, Democratic legislators deferred Tuesday to the more moderate fiscal positions of Gov. Ned Lamont, less a surrender than a postponement of a debate still to come.
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Legislators to Lamont: Time to fill in the blanks in your budget
Between an expiring hospital tax, a high-stakes dispute over Medicaid rates, and ongoing union negotiations, there are unknowns worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Governor: One key labor concession won’t be achieved this year
Gov. Ned Lamont conceded Tuesday that he won’t win new limits on cost-of-living adjustments to state employee pensions in time to build savings into the next state budget.
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Lamont’s ‘debt diet’ hits an already lean nonprofit safety net
Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed “debt diet” would suspend a key grant program that helps nonprofit agencies make building repairs, upgrade information technology, purchase new equipment and meet other capital needs.
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GOP, McCaw spar over tolls, tax hikes in Lamont budget
Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget director, Melissa McCaw ran the gantlet Wednesday as she discussed tolls and taxes with the legislature’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
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Can tax break promises be kept?
Seniors, teachers, hospitals, corporations and other groups are pressing lawmakers to deliver the tax relief they pledged in 2017 — even though Gov. Ned Lamont says Connecticut no longer can afford it.
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Lamont on tolls: ‘If you have any better ideas, bring them’
Gov. Ned Lamont offered no hard-sell Thursday for his “option” of tolls, demurring when asked if he was pressing legislators for their support. He said he wants them at the table.
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Lamont wants to take a big-table approach to state budget
Gov. Lamont is using his first budget to start a conversation, rather than drive specific solutions, about a host of key issues ranging from tolls and sports betting to recreational marijuana and labor cost-savings.
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It may be bumpy, but Lamont sees ‘a path forward’
Gov. Ned Lamont offered lawmakers Wednesday what he says is a map for a wealthy state struggling to wriggle free of a crushing pension debt amassed over decades, end crippling cycles of deficits and spark economic growth.
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Lamont’s health budget vs Connecticut hospitals
Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget replaces a previously approved tax cut for hospitals with a $43 million tax hike.
