Progressives urged Gov. Ned Lamont to tap swelling state revenues to secure permanent tax relief for low- and middle-income families.
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Scanlon forces Lamont to keep focused on tax fairness, relief for middle class
The new state budget mandates Connecticut’s first tax fairness study in seven years.
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Reform advocates make final push for relief for CT’s poor and middle class
One legislator has pitched a number of options to salvage tax cuts to the working poor and families with children.
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How one small detail in the proposed child tax credit reveals the political balancing act over tax relief
With limited dollars available, state officials struggle to balance proposed tax relief between the middle class and working poor.
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CT’s minimum wage hike has many poor families heading toward a ‘benefits cliff’
Report warns minimum-wage earners could lose half of their pay hikes by mid-2023 due to potential loss of state benefits.
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Are Lamont and his fellow Democrats headed for a showdown over tax reform?
Gov. Ned Lamont says tax hikes on the wealthy will cause them to flee Connecticut. Other Democrats are challenging that.
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Child advocacy group calls for major tax shift to close ‘highly unjust’ income, wealth gaps
A child advocacy group wants up $1.4 billion in annual tax burdens shifted from low and middle earners to the rich.
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CT Voices: State should tap reserves now to expand workforce, provide pandemic relief
A new report recommends Connecticut officials should use budget reserves now to expand pandemic relief efforts and hire more employees.
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After one alarming tax fairness study, CT is wary of launching a second
After a 2014 study found CT’s tax system hammers the poor and middle class, officials have postponed a second analysis.
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CT Voices proposes major state tax shift to reverse inequality
A leading child advocacy group challenged state leaders Wednesday to reverse escalating income and wealth inequality and provide tax relief for poor and middle-income households by shifting tax burdens onto the state’s millionaires.
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Study: Latinos students more likely to be arrested at schools with police officers
The research shows that while students of all races are more likely to get arrested at a school with a resource officer, Latinos are particularly impacted.
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Advocates warn fiscal caps could tighten on social services, local aid
Social services advocates warned Thursday that a series of new caps in the state budget could dramatically drain resources away from municipalities, education and services for children over the next decade.
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School funding reform: Ideas and challenges aplenty
With the governor set to lay out his proposals for education aid this week, numerous advocacy groups, rank-and-file legislators and a group suing the state over school funding have been pitching changes they would like to see. The bulk of the ideas are not new – but most would be controversial or expensive.
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Children’s group says tax hikes must be part of CT budget fix
A progressive children’s advocacy group has issued the first call for a major tax increase to help solve the state’s latest budget crisis, outlining more than $3 billion in revenue-raising options.
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Nation’s income gains strong, but Connecticut’s lag far behind
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Census Bureau’s good news that median income rose significantly in the United States last year wasn’t as cheerful for Connecticut. The state was among a dozen with the smallest rate of household median income growth in the nation, which had a robust increase of 5.2 percent. And not everybody benefited from Connecticut’s modest 1.8 percent income growth.