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Connecticut's Emerging State Budget Crisis

The current economic crisis creates challenges for state governments trying to meet their budgets just as it does for families throughout America. Currently, 42 states, including all six New England states and neighboring New York and New Jersey, are facing budget gaps for FY09 (the state fiscal year which in Connecticut runs from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009).  As of February 2009, Connecticut's Office of Fiscal Analysis projected state budget deficits of $1.35 billion in FY09, $3.97 billion in FY10, and $4.71 billion in FY11.

With widespread agreement that the next few years will be challenging ones on the state budget front, creative solutions will be needed that preserve the programs and services that make Connecticut a great state in which to raise families. Research undertaken at Connecticut Voices for Children will inform these critical debates. During these challenging times we can make budget choices that make Connecticut stronger and help our families and communities prosper.

CT Voices Briefs and Presentations

Also see State Tax & Budget reports by CT Voices

Governor Rell and State Departments

General Assembly (including Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Comptroller Nancy Wyman

Federal Government

Better Choices for Connecticut

 

Births to Mothers with HUSKY Program and Medicaid Coverage: 2008
CVC Publication This report on births to mothers with HUSKY and Medicaid health coverage finds:

  • Birth trends: The proportion of births covered by the HUSKY Program and fee-for-service (FFS) Medicaid continues to increase, from 26.8 percent in 2000 to 38.3 percent of all births in Connecticut in 2008.
  • Teen births: Over 85 percent of all births to Connecticut teens in 2008 were births to young mothers with HUSKY Program or FFS Medicaid.
  • Prenatal care: Mothers who had HUSKY Program or Medicaid coverage were not as likely as other mothers without publicly funded care to have had early prenatal care (prenatal care that began in the first trimester of pregnancy).
  • Smoking in pregnancy: Since monitoring by coverage type began, the smoking rate among mothers with HUSKY Program coverage has declined steadily. However, the rate (11.2%) is over five times higher than the smoking rate for other mothers in Connecticut (1.9%).
  • Birth outcomes: The rates for preterm births (prior to 37 weeks gestation) to mothers with HUSKY Program (11.3%) or FFS Medicaid coverage (13.0%) were higher than the rate for births to other mothers (10.3%) in 2008. Rates for all groups were higher than in 2007. The low birthweight rates were higher for babies born to mothers with HUSKY Program coverage (9.0%) and mothers with FFS Medicaid coverage (9.6%) than the rate for births to other mothers (7.2%).

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