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Youngkin in Virginia: “Friends, we don’t want to be Connecticut.”
During a campaign rally on the eve of election day, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin told supporters in Richmond, “Friends, we don’t want to be Connecticut.” The former CEO of...
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Disagreement over how to pay off unemployment debt between DOL and...
Connecticut borrowed over $700 million from the federal government to bolster its underfunded Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund after the forced closure of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic put...
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With billions about to be pumped into infrastructure, state Rep. calls for...
With the passage of President Biden’s infrastructure package, Connecticut will see a projected $5.6 billion come to the state to support bridge and highway construction, railroads and broadband...
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Republican Senate Leader says Democrats continue to push for new gas tax,...
Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, called on Sen. Richard Blumenthal to urge Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to reject the Transportation and Climate Initiative, which...
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WATCH: A View to ’22 Yankee Institute Virtual Forum
Complete recording of Yankee Institute’s A View to ’22 virtual forum on Connecticut and the national economy with Donald Klepper Smith, Dr Fred Carstensen and Curtis Dubay moderated by Ken Girardin and...
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Connecticut’s first Chief Manufacturing Officer decides to move on
Connecticut’s first Chief Manufacturing Officer Colin Cooper announced that he is leaving the position after two years on the job. Cooper addressed his departure during a meeting of the Manufacturing...
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Inflation may be much higher than reported, and that could hurt seniors and...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation in 2021 had hit 6.8 percent, a rate not seen since 1982, but, according to some economists, the reality may be much worse and that could...
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Connecticut’s population change during COVID is mixed, according to Census...
Reports from both lawmakers and real estate agents indicated that during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and 2021, scores of wealthy New Yorkers fled the city and bought up homes in Connecticut, but...
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CEOs see labor shortage, inflation as biggest challenges in 2022: “Rising...
A survey of 900 chief executive officers 700 executives in the United States and globally found that labor shortages and inflation are their top two concerns in 2022, according to a new report by The...
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Evictions remain significantly down in Bridgeport, Hartford after end of...
Eviction cases in Hartford and Bridgeport have remained far below historical averages since the Supreme Court overturned the federal eviction moratorium, according to an analysis by Eviction Lab at...
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CT Saw Jobs Lost in December, Revised Private Sector Gains from 3,300 to 300
Connecticut saw a 1,600 decrease in “nonfarm industry” positions in December, while November private sector gains (3,300) were revised down to only 300, according to the latest report issued by the...
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Watch as YI’s press release is featured in this Fox News 61 clip
Local News Features Latest Yankee Institute and Connecticut Voices for Children Statement As featured in this local Fox News clip, Yankee Institute and Connecticut Voices for Children united in...
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CT Adds 5,000 Jobs in May, Almost Recovered Pre-Pandemic Losses
While employers added nearly 5,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to a three-year low of 3.7% in May, Connecticut has not fully recovered its pre-pandemic totals, according to a Connecticut...
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Office Vacancy on the Rise in Hartford Area
A ‘Vacancy’ sign is flashing on office spaces in the Greater Hartford market that suffered a new all-time high availability rate of nearly 30 percent, according to a new report. Conducted by CBRE, a...
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Private and Public Jobs Recovery Suffers Setback, Still Short of Pre-Pandemic...
While the three-year low unemployment rate at 3.7% remained “unchanged,” the private and public sectors suffered a setback last month in the amount of jobs recovered since the pandemic, according to a...
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The Connecticut standard of living: not quite as lackluster as supposed
There are a variety of fallacies regarding income in the United States perpetuated by politicians, academia and the media — but one more egregious falsehood is that household incomes in the United...
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New Jobs Report: While Unemployment Rate Drops to 3.6%, Pandemic Jobs Not...
As Connecticut’s unemployment rate reached a new low of 3.6% since September 2019, the state has still not yet fully recovered the jobs lost during the March-April 2020 COVID shutdown. Overall,...
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Hartford Office Market Suffers from High Vacancy, Delinquency Issues in...
Hartford is among the worst cities regarding office delinquency rates in the nation, and the city also continues to suffer from increasing office building vacancy rates (now nearly at 30%), according...
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Frontier Moving HQ from CT to Texas; More Job Losses to Come
Frontier Communications is heading to a new frontier — moving its corporate headquarters out of state from Norwalk to Dallas, Texas. “Moving our headquarters to Dallas makes good business sense given...
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New Jobs Report: CT’s Private Sector Finally Recovered All Jobs from the...
After more than three years, Connecticut’s private sector has gained 267,700 jobs since April 2020, fully recovering — and eclipsing — the 266,000 jobs lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...
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