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The Resource Center contains a wide collection of reports, publications, and data from Connecticut and national sources. To navigate through the Resource Center, use the keyword search below or browse by selecting a specific category using the drop-down menu below the Featured post.

Fiscal Accountability Reports (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Nov 20, 2024 Featured

Each November, in accordance with state statute, the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis produces a Fiscal Accountability Report. According to statute, the report must explain: (1) the level of spending changes from current year spending allowed by consensus revenue estimates, (2) any changes to current year spending necessary because of “fixed cost drivers,” and (3) the total change to current year spending required to accommodate fixed cost drivers without exceeding current revenue estimates.

OFA Fiscal Accountability Report - FY 2025 OFA Fiscal Accountability Report - FY 2025 Presentation OFA Fiscal Accountability Report - FY 2024 OFA Fiscal Accountability Report - FY 2024 Presentation OFA Fiscal Accountability Report - FY 2023

State Budget State Revenue & Spending

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Issue Brief: Connecticut's Response to Federal Tax Reform (Office of Legislative Research)

Nov 15, 2018

This issue brief from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research summarizes tax changes made by the General Assembly during the 2018 legislative session in effort to mitigate the potentially negative impacts on Connecticut of federal tax changes made as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 passed by Congress.

OLR Connecticut's Response to Federal Tax Reform

State Revenue & Spending Taxes

Research Report: Connecticut Income Tax Rates and Brackets Since 1991 (Office of Legislative Research)

Jun 14, 2018

Report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research providing information about Connecticut's state income tax rates and brackets and since the enactment of Connecticut's state income tax in 1991.

OLR Connecticut Income Tax Rates and Brackets Since 1991

State Revenue & Spending Taxes

Participation in Connecticut's Open Choice Program, 2013-2018 (CT State Department of Education)

May 23, 2018

This spreadsheet, from Connecticut's State Department of Education, details the number of students participating in Connecticut's Open Choice program — by resident town — each year from the 2013-14 school year to the 2017-18 school year.

Open Choice Enrollment 2013 2018

Schools of Choice

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions: State Stress Test Analysis (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

May 1, 2018

This paper, produced by The Pew Charitable Trusts for the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, summarizes the results of a stress test simulation analysis on the largest government pension plans in 10 states under different economic scenarios and assumptions for policymaker behavior.

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions

Pensions Fixed Costs

Research Report: Comparison of Charter, Magnet, Agricultural Science Centers, and Technical High Schools (Office of Legislative Research)

Feb 17, 2018

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that compares Connecticut's laws and funding for four types of public schools: charter schools, interdistrict magnet schools, regional agricultural science and technology education centers (“agri-science centers”), and technical high schools.

OLR Comparison of Charter, Magnet, Agricultural Science Centers, and Technical High Schools

Schools of Choice

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