Yankee Institute

Connecticut’s May jobs report looked positive — until you looked under the hood.

Government payroll growth accounted for all of the net increase, while private-sector employment fell and unemployment rose.

Government Payrolls Kept Connecticut’s May Job Numbers Positive Connecticut added 500 jobs in May even as private-sector employment declined by 800 and unemployment rose to 5.1 percent, according to the Connecticut Department of Labor’s State of Connecticut Labor […]

Connecticut’s teachers unions say this federal tax credit threatens public schools.

Opting out would not put a single extra dollar into public schools. It would only deny Connecticut students access to scholarships available elsewhere.

That is the part they are not telling you.

Connecticut Students Would Lose Scholarships. Public Schools Would Gain Nothing Connecticut’s teachers unions are pressing Gov. Ned Lamont to reject a federal education tax credit on the grounds that it threatens public schools. There is a problem with that argument: […]

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