Look Out Below! Connecticut 45th

It turns out that rising taxes and non-existent growth are not desirable traits for business. CEO Magazine, a trade magazine for business leaders, ranked Connecticut the 45th best (?) state for business in 2013. Texas was the top ranked state for the second year in a row while New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, and California rounded out the bottom of the list. The comments from CEOs...
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The List of Lasts

EAST HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute for Public Policy purchased a full page advertisement (PDF) in four Connecticut newspapers today to highlight the disgraceful list of lasts Connecticut has compiled in recent years. “We aren’t just doing worse than average,” said Fergus Cullen, the Yankee Institute’s Executive Director. “We are doing the...
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2012 Policy Guide

Connecticut’s State Motto is Qui Transtulit Sustinet, He Who Transplanted Still Sustains. But over the last twenty years, state trends point to a different reality: He who transplanted is transplanting again to sustain. Connecticut suffered a net loss of 325,526 residents during that time, or about one in ten residents. The transplants are now the people leaving Connecticut, not coming here,...
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