Several Connecticut corporations received funds under the federal Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). This is an update on which companies received such funds and have paid back the federal government. Company Name Headquarters TARP Funds Received TARP Funds Owed* Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Hartford $3.4 billion $0 Webster Financial Corp. Waterbury $400 million $300 [...]
The state board charged with implementing health care reform in Connecticut has close ties with a special interest group, raising questions about the board’s independence since the advocacy group has hired the outside experts advising the board. Last month, the 11-member SustiNet board released a report on federal health care reform. The board created the [...]
Maryland’s budget deficit was growing at an alarming rate. Sound familiar?
To solve the problem the cash-strapped General Assembly decided to tax the state’s millionaires at the high rate of 6.25%.
But the Legislature’s action may have made the problem worse, not better.
Correction: The 2010 data and rankings have been updated to reflect a correction. An incorrect data set representing one year of cost data has been removed and replaced with the correct data. As a result of the correction, some but not all rankings have changed. A previous correction updated Region 6’s costs and rank and [...]
