Featured Policy Paper
Closing Connecticut’s Achievement Gap Through Public School Choice
This paper recommends ways Connecticut state and local governments can close the state’s achievement gap through greater and more effective use of public school choice. The recommendations address how public schools are funded, what types of choices are available to students and their parents, and how families access information to make informed choices.
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Connecticut's Economic Scorecard
This scorecard presents both lagging and leading indicators of Connecticut’s economic wellbeing across five dimension: economic performance, health outcomes, fiscal policy, workforce quality, and regulatory climate. The scorecard compares Connecticut to the country as a whole and to other culturally similar states in the northeast.
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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.
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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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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
Jobs & the Economy
Foreclosure Activity in Connecticut Still Among Highest in the Country
Taxes & Government Spending
Lembo hopes CT will move to disclose corporate aid
Crime & Public Safety
An Act Concerning Gun Prevention and 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
CT Job Growth Continues to Lag Nation, Northeast
Touted employer survey gains from July have been almost entirely erased following three consecutive months of losses. Household survey shows gains in recent months, but year-over-year trajectory remains negative.
Taxes & Government Spending
Office of Fiscal Analysis Projects More Deficits
The Connecticut General Assembly’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis projected on Friday that Connecticut will face a $1.1 billion deficit in the fiscal year that begins in July 2015 and an even larger deficit the following year.
Education
2013 NAEP Scores Show Need for More Systemic Education Reform
The 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results released last week show little progress in educational achievement for Connecticut low-income and minority students, in spite of the state’s much-touted education reforms.
Connecticut Jobs Data Snapshot
| October 2013 | Change from previous month | CT Year-over-year growth rate | USA Year-over-year growth rate. | |
| Non-Farm Employment (Business Survey) | 1,650,700 | -100 | +0.60% | +1.74% |
| Residents Employed (Household Survey) | 1,706.600 | +300 | -0.54% | +0.17% |
CT’s Choice Legislative Awards
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