$BILLIONAIRE Tax Bandits?
Billionaires Seize $Billions Letter to Editor – Hartford Courant April 3, 2022
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What? Huh? They’re Moving to Connecticut Not Leaving
South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida. Many Now Eye a Return By Katherine Burton, Annie Massa, Amanda L Gordon, and Jonathan Levin March 10, 2021 USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved…
“Have you no decency” Mitch McConnell?
McConnell doesn’t care about the truth LTE in the Hartford Courant — 10/4/20 It’s no surprise that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would announce his plan to quickly fill the new vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, within hours of…
TOP REASONS TRUMP IS BAD FOR WORKERS!!!!!!!
50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers President Trump has said he would ‘protect’ and ‘fight for’ workers. Instead, his administration has systematically done the opposite. EPI Report • By Celine McNicholas, Lynn Rhinehart, and Margaret Poydock • September 16, 2020 The Trump administration’s…
INSANE! Cuts to Higher Ed are a Death Spiral
The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus CUNY must be saved from needless cuts. By Ben Lerner — Mr. Lerner is a writer and a professor of English at Brooklyn College. May 26, 2020 Students at the Brooklyn College…
Corona Virus – USE ALL TOOLS TO SUPPORT CT ECONOMY and KEEP RESIDENTS HEALTHY
Research by Connecticut Voices for Children: USE The Rainy Day Fund!!!!!!!! By law, Connecticut is required to deposit into its Budget Reserve Fund (BRF)—also known as the Rainy Day Fund—all revenue exceeding $3.15 billion from the combination of two sources,…
MYTH BUSTER: Project Labor Agreements Actually Save Money!
“PLAs’ cost savings are both direct and indirect and can be substantial” By: Fred B. Kotler, J.D. Associate Director Construction Industry Program School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University ● PLAs are a valuable construction management tool for project…
Power and Money Grab by CT Board of Regents
‘Good faith’ and community college consolidation CT VIEWPOINTS — CT Mirror In December 2017, as the Connecticut State College and University system office was preparing its “Students First” consolidation plan, the system’s Faculty Advisory Committee presented an extended critique of the…
CHARTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
13 Charts From 2019 That Will Blow Your Mind Economic Policy Institute See All the charts here
Raise the Pay for our Most Important Workers!
Let’s pay preschool educators a worthy wage ..AFT Follow May 1 · By Tammy Duckworth I know firsthand the difference a teacher can make in a student’s life. When I was a child, my dad lost his job — and all too quickly,…