Keith M. Phaneuf

Connecticut will provide $300 grocery store gift cards to an estimated 25,000 residents who've lost federal nutrition assistance, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Wednesday.

If CT can't find the right balance between paying down debt and supporting towns and public services, deficits are coming, analysts say.

While the call for tax reform gains momentum, major proposals cannot get past a governor who is focused paying down CT's huge pension debt.

The United Way estimates about 40% of Connecticut households can't fund a basic “survival budget” that covers food, housing, utilities, child and health care and transportation.

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Connecticut's diesel fuel tax will climb by 1 penny per gallon starting July 1 – hardly a massive jump.

With about 110,000 poor adults at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under new federal work rules this January, officials are scrambling to avert a

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Fazio offered a blueprint Wednesday to reduce CT's over-reliance on the municipal property tax.

But the hospital association also is watching the situation closely because it could place new fiscal pressures on an industry that says it already loses $1.5 billion yearly due to Medicaid payments that fail to meet the full cost of delivering service.

Fazio, a state senator from Greenwich, didn't offer specific fiscal projections for his plan but says he believes the strategy ultimately would boost aid to communities — and relief to local taxpayers — by hundreds of millions of dollars annually.