Featured Policy Paper
Connecticut's Regulations: Examples Where the Costs Exceed the Benefits
This paper lays out a set of specific Connecticut regulations for which the benefits do not exceed the costs or for which the benefits could be achieved in less costly ways. It focuses specifically on certain occupational licensing requirements, employment regulations, and environmental regulations.
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Building CT's Workforce: Integrating Career Education with Employer Needs
This paper recommends a number of ways to strengthen linkages among Connecticut’s public education administration, technical high schools, community colleges, and employers.
Featured Policy Paper
Connecticut's Public Pension Liabilities: How Big Are They and What Can Be Done About Them
With realistic accounting assumptions, Connecticut's unfunded public pension liabilities exceed $60B, $20B more than the state reports. The paper also compares lifetime public and private sector compensation in Connecticut and sets forth options the state has for reducing its liabilities.
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Reforming Connecticut's Schools: "The Four Big Things"
This paper focuses on "The Four Big Things" Connecticut must do to improve its underperforming schools. "The Four Big Things" are based on reforms in other states that have proven to have the most significant positive impact on student outcomes.
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Connecticut Job Creation: Separating Policy from Politics
Analysis and recommendations for what Connecticut policymakers should, and should not, do to both alleviate short-term unemployment and promote long-term sustainable job growth in Connecticut.
Gateway to Connecticut Government
Transportation & Infrastructure
Passengers bloodied after trains derail, collide in southwest Connecticut
Regulation
Connecticut gas companies eye rate hike
Taxes & Government Spending
Fairfield County Fuels Record-Breaking Year For Estate Taxes
Taxes & Government Spending
Crowd rips committee over proposed tax hike
Crime & Public Safety
AN ACT CONCERNING GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CHILDREN’S SAFETY
Jobs & the Economy
Increase Minimum Wage from $8.25 to $9.75
Taxes & Government Spending
FY 2014 – FY 2015 Governor’s Budget
Crime & Public Safety
Sales Tax on Ammunition
Jobs & the Economy
CPI Analysis: CT Economic Recovery Continues to Lag USA
Connecticut’s jobs recovery since 2010 has been substantially slower than that of the United States as a whole
Jobs & the Economy, Taxes & Government Spending
Fact Check of Gov. Malloy's State of the State Address
Governor Malloy’s 2013 state of the state address included assertions about Connecticut’s budget and economy that were, to say the least, dubious. Here is a fact-check of his most questionable claims.
Education
Jeb Bush Addresses CT Education Reform at CPI Forum
Governor discusses lessons from other states. Stresses that education reform is a "process" not a "checklist" and that CT still has a ways to go.
Connecticut Jobs Data Snapshot
| April 2013 | Change from previous month | Year-to-Year change | Change since 2008 | |
| non-farm employment | 1,649,300 | +6,300 | +10,800 | -63,700 |
| unemployment rate | 8.0% | 0 | -0.2% | +3.0% |
CT’s Choice Legislative Awards
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What it Will Take to Get Connecticut Employers Hiring, featuring CBIA CEO John Rathgeber
Connecticut has seen almost no job growth in the last year, and our recovery from the economic recession has lagged far behind the rest of the country’s. Part of the CPI’s lunch briefing and policy discussion series, this presentation will review the reasons for that lagging job growth and discuss what policies need to change in Hartford for employers to start hiring.
