Opinion: Connecticut’s disappearing children – how the budget makes the problem worse

Suzanne Bates is the policy director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. She lives in South Windsor with her family. Follow her on Twitter @suzebates.

What Connecticut urgently needs is leadership — we need leaders who see the real economic crisis that we’re in, and we need leaders who have the resolve and intelligence to do something about it.

With the avalanche of bad news that preceded the legislative session — you’ve heard it all by now: shrinking population, unhappy residents, unhappy businesses, and a stagnant economy — I really hoped Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and our legislative leadership would start the session this year with a resolve to fix some of Connecticut’s deep-seated economic problems.

Instead we were left with an absolute mess. A budget that passed by slim margins in both chambers, and for which few seem to want to take credit. Take a look at the Facebook pages, the Twitter feeds, and the web pages of many of the Democratic representatives and senators who voted for the budget — very few have spoken out in its defense.

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