For one state in the Northeast, crushing debt load of state pensions. For a couple of decades, state leadership promised generous pensions and kept kicking the

For one state in the Northeast, crushing debt load of state pensions. For a couple of decades, state leadership promised generous pensions and kept kicking the can down the road. Something has to give and (higher) education funding is an easy item to cut. "The current speaker of the house, Joe Aresimowicz, works for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, an amazing conflict of interest even by blue-state standards." "The erosion of Connecticut’s suburban tax base is a more dire prospect than the continued weakness of its cities."