CONNECTICUT SCOREBOARD - JULY 2025

Red Jahncke is a nationally recognized columnist, who writes about politics and policy. His columns appear in numerous national publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, Issues & Insights and National Review as well as many Connecticut newspapers.

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Long Commute: Some CT state employees live really far away

By Marc E. Fitch, CT Inside Investigator, 6/29/25 - Post on September 15, 2025

Long Commute: Some CT state employees live really far away

Inside Investigator submitted a Freedom of Information request to the state Comptroller’s office for all full-time executive branch employees with mailing addresses outside the state of Connecticut and received back 505 names, with town and state data.

By far, most of those employees (442) live in Connecticut’s next door neighbor states.

In some cases, the data was just wrong... one manager who lived in Florida had actually retired... Others had retired,.. but have since returned to state service as a temporary worker/retiree and maintain residence in-state. Others were seasonal employees or substitute teachers who only worked occasionally...

For the remaining full-time, active employees who had out of state mailing addresses – of which there were thirteen – they were nearly all long-time employees, making over six figures, and working in IT or a similarly computer-based role.

A Quarter of Americans Are On Medicaid

By Alexander Riley, Chronicles , Aug. 8, 2025 - Post on August 11, 2025

A Quarter of Americans Are On Medicaid

Of about 340 million Americans, 83 million are on Medicaid.

That’s one-fourth of us.

Forty percent of American children are on Medicaid. Forty percent!

Try to wrap your head around those figures. One in four of us has his healthcare paid for by the other three, who are also paying for their own healthcare. Two of every five children in the country have been brought into the world by people who are not in a condition to provide them healthcare, so the rest of us pick up the tab, in addition to paying for the healthcare of our own children.

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CONNECTICUT SCOREBOARD – JULY 2025