Happy Tax Freedom Day

Posted on May 13, 2013 in Featured, Press EAST HARTFORD – Today is Tax Freedom Day in Connecticut, the day on which Connecticut residents finally stop working for the government and start working for themselves. Connecticut has the latest Tax Freedom Day of any state in the country, as calculated by the Tax Foundation. Nationally, Tax Freedom Day arrived on April 18. Connecticut residents work three and a half weeks longer to pay...
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Look Out Below! Connecticut 45th

Posted on May 7, 2013 in Featured, Press 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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1,223 Make More Than Malloy

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 in Press EAST HARTFORD – More than 1,200 state employees earned over $150,000 last year, making each of them better paid than Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Connecticut’s median household income is $69,243, according to the Census Bureau. The governor’s salary, which is set by state statute at $150,000 a year, is more than twice that. Yet Gov. Malloy was only the state’s 1,224th highest paid...
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Voters Skeptical About Budget

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 in Polling, Press, Research EAST HARTFORD – The good news for Gov. Dannel Malloy is that he enjoys his highest approval ratings ever, at 54 percent, according to a new poll by the Yankee Institute. The bad news is that voters don’t like his new budget proposals and only 42 percent of Connecticut voters say they would vote to re-elect him next year. The governor’s approval rating sits at 54/45%, for a net positive...
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Get CT Back on Top

Posted on Jan 9, 2013 in Press EAST HARTFORD – Connecticut has compiled a disgraceful list of lasts in recent years, as the Yankee Institute highlighted on Wednesday this week with a full page advertisement in several major CT newspapers. Yankee Institute Executive Director Fergus Cullen said,” Now is the time to lower spending and adopt pro-growth tax policies that will move Connecticut from last to...
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The List of Lasts

Posted on Jan 8, 2013 in Featured, Press, Research, Tax and Budget 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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Yankee Names Eight Legislative Heroes

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 in Press EAST HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute has named eight “Legislative Heroes” based on the think tank’s 2011-2012 Voter Guide. The Voter Guide ranks legislators based on their votes for free markets and individual liberty in the General Assembly based on ten key votes in the 2011-2012 legislative sessions. Among the keys votes studied were votes on the Malloy administration’s 77 separate...
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1,279 State Employees Make More than Malloy

Posted on Jun 11, 2012 in Accountability and Transparency, Data, Press, Research EAST HARTFORD – A total of 1,279 state employees earned more than Gov. Dan Malloy in 2011, according to new data posted to CTSunlight.org, the Yankee Institute’s revamped government transparency website. Gov. Dan Malloy earned $148,563 in 2011. That’s more than twice the median household income of $66,187 in Connecticut from 2009-2010, according to the most recent data available from the...
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Forced Unions Still Illegal; Court on Monday

Posted on May 4, 2012 in Press EAST HARTFORD – Fergus Cullen, Executive Director of the Yankee Institute, issues the following statement in response to the legislature’s vote last night to authorize the organization of certain personal care attendants and daycare providers: “Last night’s vote does not affect our lawsuit challenging the legality of the administration’s forced unionization of certain personal care...
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