The CT Voices for Children report says the early childhood education system needs an overhaul, with dysfunction at virtually every level.
Connecticut Voices for Children
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CT ranks 8th nationally in kids’ well-being in 2025
CT earned high marks in education and health in the 2025 Kids Count but not in its economic well-being and family and community data.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT lags behind U.S. in job and income growth, report says
The state has fallen behind the national average post-pandemic in several key economic metrics, according to a CT Voices for Children report.
Posted inEconomic Development
Child care, preschool slots for CT children are dropping, report says
The CT Voices report says slots for infant and toddler care are down and preschool slots dropped to the lowest number since at least 2005.
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Prioritizing reentry from prison will boost CT’s economy, report says
A new report recommends that Connecticut implement policies to help people leaving incarceration fill the void caused by the workforce shortage.
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Progressives urge Lamont to make permanent tax relief for the poor
Progressives urged Gov. Ned Lamont to tap swelling state revenues to secure permanent tax relief for low- and middle-income families.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics
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.