You Didn’t Build That: Occupational Licensure in CT

Posted on May 13, 2013 in Research, Tax and Budget by Ryan Murphy Connecticut needs as many entrepreneurs as it can get. But for many would-be small businesspeople, Connecticut’s stringent occupational licensure laws stand in the way. Connecticut licenses 241 occupations, from hairdressers to glaziers. Often sold in the name of public safety, more often licensure laws serve as artificial barriers to entry designed to limit supply and protect...
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525 $100k Pensions in 2012

Posted on Mar 14, 2013 in Accountability and Transparency, Research EAST HARTFORD – A record 525 retired state employees took home at least $100,000 in pension pay in 2012, according to new data from the state Comptroller’s office analyzed by the Yankee Institute. That figure is up from 417 retirees in 2011. A record 36 retired state employees enjoyed pensions of at least $150,000, which is more than Governor Malloy’s salary. In 2011, 25 retirees received...
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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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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 Voter Guide

Posted on Oct 19, 2012 in Research The 2011-2012 Yankee Institute Voter Guide is now available. Click here to download in PDF format.
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Yankee PolicyWiki

Posted on Oct 7, 2012 in Research, Tax and Budget EAST HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute is pleased to unveil its old research in a new format: the Yankee Institute PolicyWiki. The PolicyWiki brings the Yankee Institute’s award-winning public policy research to an online format familiar to millions of Internet users. “Read, browse, click, and read again,” said Heath Fahle, the Yankee Institute’s Deputy Director....
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2012 Policy Guide

Posted on Aug 28, 2012 in Featured, Research, Tax and Budget 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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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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Funding Pulled for Connecticut Communists

Posted on Jun 4, 2012 in Accountability and Transparency, Press, Research EAST HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute for Public Policy, which did much to bring attention to the Malloy Administration’s plan to provide $300,000 in taxpayer funding to the New Haven People’s Center, home to the Connecticut Communist Party, releases the following statement from Executive Director Fergus Cullen in response to today’s bond commission meeting: “It’s never too late to...
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Yankee sues Gov. Dan Malloy

Posted on Mar 22, 2012 in Health Care, Press, Research EAST HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute for Public Policy, in concert with the Connecticut Association of Personal Care Assistance, Inc., Personal Care Attendants, and the Connecticut citizens that use their services, sued Governor Dannel P. Malloy today regarding the forced unionization of personal care attendants and day care providers. Download the complaint here. To see photos from...
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