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![With Connecticut’s rainy day fund now projected to approach $4.1 billion, calls to reassess the state’s savings programs continue to grow. With Connecticut’s rainy day fund now projected to approach $4.1 billion, calls to reassess the state’s savings programs continue to grow.](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thc-l-statecapitol-02.jpg?w=117)
CT sitting on $4.1 billion budget reserve. It could stop massive budget cuts in next recession
With Connecticut’s rainy day fund now projected to approach $4.1 billion, calls to reassess the state’s savings programs continue to grow.
![The Board of Regents for Higher Education, which oversees the system, has raised tuition and fees frequently in recent years, while cutting staff and tightening programs. The Board of Regents for Higher Education, which oversees the system, has raised tuition and fees frequently in recent years, while cutting staff and tightening programs.](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/01/13/OTNWPLKXGVDSDIK3N65DTCSAQ4.jpg?w=135)
Lamont warns UConn, CSCU to prepare for leaner years. Here is what that means.
The Board of Regents for Higher Education, which oversees the system, has raised tuition and fees frequently in recent years, while cutting staff and tightening programs.
![As Connecticut began a new fiscal year two weeks ago projecting to save another $1.2 billion to beef up its finances, state workers are receiving their fourth straight 4.5% hike As Connecticut began a new fiscal year two weeks ago projecting to save another $1.2 billion to beef up its finances, state workers are receiving their fourth straight 4.5% hike](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thc-l-statecapitol-04.jpg?w=117)
CT House GOP leader: State workers are ‘eating at the trough first’. Raises kicked in.
As Connecticut began a new fiscal year two weeks ago projecting to save another $1.2 billion to beef up its finances, state workers are receiving their fourth straight 4.5% hike
![CT contracting watchdogs asked not to talk without director’s OK: ‘Sounds like a gag order’ CT contracting watchdogs asked not to talk without director’s OK: ‘Sounds like a gag order’](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/03/16/UG6SXB2RA5GJNO354RL5INUXYQ.jpg?w=135)
CT contracting watchdogs asked not to talk without director’s OK: ‘Sounds like a gag order’
An appointee of Gov. Ned Lamont is proposing that Connecticut’s contracting watchdog panel not publicly discuss its work — which includes investigations of Executive Branch agencies — without clearing it...
![An analysis from Connecticut Voices for Children, a progressive policy group, found tax fairness is eroding An analysis from Connecticut Voices for Children, a progressive policy group, found tax fairness is eroding](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/THC-l-CTStateCapitol-01.jpg?w=104)
Would CT increase taxes on homes of the rich? Here’s how much money it could mean.
An analysis from Connecticut Voices for Children, a progressive policy group, found tax fairness is eroding
![CT predicting another $1 billion-plus surplus amid education, housing, social service needs CT predicting another $1 billion-plus surplus amid education, housing, social service needs](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/01/31/T7J57S2AIZCN3MMUSUGC6XD5KI.jpg?w=135)
CT predicting another $1 billion-plus surplus amid education, housing, social service needs
The controversial program designed to bar legislators from spending “volatile” tax receipts continues to collect big dollars year after year, a contradiction that continues to frustrate those seeking to bolster...
![CT has reduced inequities in representation and pay among Black workers in recent years, but the gaps have worsened for Hispanics and Asians. CT has reduced inequities in representation and pay among Black workers in recent years, but the gaps have worsened for Hispanics and Asians.](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thc-l-statecapitol-02.jpg?w=117)
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Study finds diversity and pay gaps remain in CT government jobs
CT has reduced inequities in representation and pay among Black workers in recent years, but the gaps have worsened for Hispanics and Asians.
![CT diesel tax to jump 3 cents after yearlong freeze CT diesel tax to jump 3 cents after yearlong freeze](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TBS-L-KEYBRIDGECOLLAPSE2-05_24845e.jpg?w=140)
CT diesel tax to jump 3 cents after yearlong freeze
Connecticut’s trucking industry will face a small tax hike next month when the state tax on diesel fuel rises slightly more than 3 cents per gallon. Truckers dodged a much...
![Unions blast Lamont, consultants over UConn hospital privatization Unions blast Lamont, consultants over UConn hospital privatization](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2018/07/12/ZSR4WZ2THFBCDE6MJNZ6JXSCBY.jpg?w=135)
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Unions blast Lamont, consultants over UConn hospital privatization
The coalition representing nearly all unionized state employees blasted Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday and an analysis he commissioned that outlines options to sell or otherwise privatize John Dempsey Hospital...
![CT has big unspent gasoline tax receipts for third year in a row
CT has big unspent gasoline tax receipts for third year in a row](https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/03/16/VUQT66J3MFFPPNVV2XZ566QRCY.jpg?w=135)
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Why the Connecticut fight over transportation taxes, reserves rolls on
CT has big unspent gasoline tax receipts for third year in a row