While legislative leaders remain hopeful that lawmakers will adopt a new state budget later this week, there’s a growing recognition at the Capitol that it will be an unfinished document with more loose ends even than past budgets.
Painful spending choices built into the second year of the biennial package involving higher education and transportation have many worried.
Connecticut’s regional university and college system could eliminate more than 3,500 full and part-time jobs including 654 layoffs while boosting student tuition and fees by as much as $1,000 by 2.