Keith M. Phaneuf / CT Mirror

After emptying its budget reserves to battle the Great Recession in 2009, it took Connecticut 10 years to save $2 billion.

Critics say Connecticut must spend more in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A state program designed to help small communities launch key economic development projects has lost its way, according to one legislative leader who wants to revive it.

Minority Republicans in the state House and Senate called Thursday for suspension of the state’s wholesale tax on gasoline, until at least July 1.

Throughout his first three years, Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has described a tidal wave of state employee retirements projected for 2022 as a golden opportunity to save money and make services more efficient through increased use of technology.

Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has reached tentative contract agreements with 35 state employee bargaining units covering the bulk of the state’s unionized workforce, union leaders announced Tuesday.

Labor unions are stepping up their push to reverse state government’s shrinking workforce, arguing this trend will exacerbate racial and gender disparities — particularly involving wages — across Connecticut.

Top legislative leaders pledged Wednesday to make permanent a temporary income tax cut for Connecticut’s working poor, a move that would provide roughly an extra $300 annually to more than 185,000 households.

Connecticut’s state and municipal tax systems hits the poor and middle class more than wealthy residents according to data released Monday by the Department of Revenue Services.