Concession Fatigue in Connecticut August 29, 2017 / John O’Connor and Louise Williams — Labor Notes For the third time in eight years, public sector workers in Connecticut have voted for concessions, and it is labor’s so-called friends who have hurt…
Group Of Millionaires Pushes For Higher Taxes On The Wealthy As the state faces a budget deficit of $3.5 billion over two years, a group of “upper-income” state residents say they want to be part of the solution to solving…
Fresh food for low-income seniors axed from Malloy spending plan –By Kaitlyn Krasselt and Rob Ryser, August 10, 2017 — The Hour — Photo: Alex Von Kleydorff / Hearst Connecticut Media – Market master for the city of Norwalk’s farm stands,…
Toubman: ‘If we don’t raise revenue somehow, we shred the safety net’ — By: KEITH M. PHANEUF | July 30, 2017 — CT Mirror KEITH M. PHANEUF / CTMIRROR.ORG Sheldon Toubman, staff attorney with New Haven Legal Assistance Association One of Connecticut’s most…
CBIA: Labor pact could lock in ‘unsustainable’ costs PHOTO | PABLO ROBLES Joe Brennan, president and CEO of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association. —PATRICIA DADDONA – Hartford Business Journal — The five-year extension of state employee workers’ contracts agreed to…
Union ad casts GOP leaders as ‘protectors of billionaires’ –By: KEITH M. PHANEUF | July 20, 2017– CT Mirror — The state’s largest healthcare workers’ union took some jabs Thursday at the top Republicans in the legislature, charging them in a new ad…
Malloy enlists disabled in budget fight — gets protest at his office –By: JULIA WERTH AND MARK PAZNIOKAS | July 18, 2017 — CT Mirror MARK PAZNIOKAS / CTMIRROR.ORG Elaine Kolb backs out of the governor’s outer office after her arrest for trespassing. Gary Gross…
Update: Care4Kids Slots Continue to Decrease posted by Kayla Goldfarb – CAHS From May 2016 to May 2017, Connecticut continued to lose child care slots for low-income families and children, with more than 5,100 slots lost to cut backs in just one…
Office of Early Childhood merger takes us back, not forward JULY 17, 2017 — CT Mirror ViewPoint –By Merrill Gay — CT Early Childhood Alliance –Executive Director– It is troubling that several of the budget proposals floating around the State Capitol call for…
State employees overwhelmingly ratify concessions By Keith M. Phaneuf and Mark Pazniokas via CTMirror Unionized state employees have voted overwhelmingly to ratify the concession deal negotiated with the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, shifting the focus to a closely…