In the 2013 legislative session, quirks in Connecticut’s state budget translated into a budget impasse: the state spending cap threatened to prevent Connecticut from accepting federal funds to pay for the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid coverage.
Data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey show that the official end of the Great Recession has had no real impact for the most vulnerable children in our state, who experienced a net increase in poverty from 2008 to 2012.
The uninsured rate in Connecticut has improved over recent years, despite high unemployment and a slow economic recovery, according to Census data from the Current Population Survey.
