Statement from Gian Carl Casa, President & CEO, CT Community Nonprofit Alliance on the report compiled by Yale University’s Tobin Center and the Connecticut Project on the state’s budget controls.
“The report released by Yale’s Tobin Center and The Connecticut Project advances solid, data-driven research that supports modifying the state’s budget controls to better balance providing vital services with paying down long-term debt. We thank the research team for this comprehensive work.
“Every recent fiscal accountability report from OPM and OFA show the state will bring in huge surpluses this year and into the future. At the same time, the legislature struggles to work around outdated controls to appropriate adequate funding for programs like nonprofits, whose contracts with the state have been underfunded for decades.
“Connecticut has the money to support critical community programs. This report shows that the time for change is now, and we know from our own polling that the public supports it.”
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