Episode 3: Fundamental Connecticut
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Fundamental Connecticut is a CPBN Partnership Production paid for by the Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation
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Find out more: The following links bring you to some of the sources used to produce this episode.
- Connecticut Budget of the State Comptroller
- Connecticut General Assembly Office of Fiscal Analysis: Fiscal Accountability Report FY17-FY20
- Connecticut's Finances, "Fixed Costs"
- The Hartford Courant, "State Workers' Pensions, Retiree Health Care Fuel $1.3 Billion Budget Shortfall"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "A Guide to the Budget: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?"
- The Yankee Institute, "Connecticut Government Spending Grows Faster Than the State Economy"
- The Stamford Advocate, "Connecticut Economy Sees Big Changes During Recovery"
- Bloomberg.com, "These US States Haven't Fully Recoverered from Recession"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "Malloy Rejects Hospital Tax But Signs Most of New CT Budget Into Law"
- The Yankee Institute, "Fringe Benefits for State Employees Cost Up to 86 Percent of Payroll"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "Malloy Rejects Hospital Tax But Signs Most of New CT Budget Into Law"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "Big Deficits Two Years from Now Could Undercut Tax Cut Promises"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "Municipalities Say CT's Property Tax System is Unsustainable"
Credits: Written by Bernard Kavaler. Produced by J Holt. Graphics by Jim Valentino. Voice: Anita Ford Saunders.