Our stadium holds 40,000.
Maybe not this year, but if Connecticut ever got smart and become business friendly, it might have 40K season tickets...
If Michigan fans bought a bunch of season tix, look for these "premium" prices to be available on the cheap on StubHub.
Single game tix go on sale in about 2 weeks (based on past years). We should hear something by then. My guess is 23k. Hope I'm way low on that guess though...
that is a whole different argument/issue then. Connecticut's economy relied on a two legged stool for pretty much the post war period. Insurance and defense. I used to know the numbers but those were the two prime movers and it wasn't even close. neither of those have been growth stocks, in part because of advances in manufacturing. Pratt& whitney at its height in the 1970s employed 40,000 in East Hartford. Even if you ignore the politics ( they made a conscious effort beginning in the 1980s to move subcontracting out of Connecticut for the simple reason that if they had subcontractors in Ohio and Indiana they could get votes from congressmen from Ohio and Indiana), and the economics of moving work out of Connecticut, they simply don't need 40,000 people to produce things today even if they had a larger workload. Since we're not at war and nobody is shooting planes out of the sky, they don't have a similar demand anyway. Same thing with EB. Connecticut was very slow to get into the diversification business. They continued to prop up these older industries with policies for decades after it became clear that they were not the future. For years we had rules on finacial services that were designed for the insurance industry but limited the ability of banks and investment banks, basically any non-insurance business to operate. and that was fine with the big insurers. Kept them from having to compete. It has only been in the last few years that we've really seem Connecticut get aggressive in seeking new industries as distinct from new business. We made a modest effort to attract pharmaceutical firmswith some success, but that effort focused on bringing in/expanding big firms, in hopes they would spin off smaller firms. Unfortunately that industry went the opposite direction and consolidated in to a few even larger players. Rather than spin off small firms, it tended to gobble them up as soon as they ahd anything like a hit. Bioscience is different and we're really approaching it differently, too. Focusing on smaller firms, different kind of assistance too and in 10-15 years could be a major new industry.
What the hell does that mean? Connecticut was business friendly for years when it had state established pricing for furniture and appliances. And for legal services. One reason we have the highest electric prices in the country is that for decades we basically gave the utilities everything they wanted even when it made no sense. the problem is that we've bet the house on older shrinking industries, not growing ones. heck we pretty much destroyed a whole town to make way for Pfizer, who didn't live up to one of their promises and then left town as soon as their tax breaks ended. Business friendly is a silly Chamber of commerce term tha means absolutley nothing.
We are friendly sure. That's the reason that every business in the state is lining up to get out.
Yes, we are still number one for income per capita and top five for education and health. cheers to that. There are also plenty of metrics that paint a rather bleak picture. Population growth is very low, out migration (established households moving to other states) is high. thankfully we have moderate foreign in migration to keep our population increasing by a tiny bit.
Its a measure of health. And a reflection of people voting on economic policy and opportunities with their feet. You want to see moderate growth. A rising population tide lifts many boats, such as the local pizza shop and gas station and in turn it leads too an expanding tax base which is imperative to partially mitigating future government pension obligations. Most people will have the majority of their personal networth tied to the value of their home. It is difficult to have home price inflation at CPI in communities that arent growing unless they are vacation areas.
