News Releases

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• 6/5/2019 ctpost - Budget Averts Massive Teacher Pension Payment

• 5/22/2019 Hartford Courant - State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden: The reckoning has come. It's time to restructure the debt.

• 6/6/2019 Nearly 70 Percent of Facebook's Non-Insider Votes Support Independent Board Chair; Shareholder Resolution Co-filed by Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, Public Plans

• 9/23/2020 Connecticut State Treasurer and the Ford Foundation Launch Partnership to Advance Corporate Call to Action Working Group and Address Economic and Racial Disparities

• 9/29/2021 Media Alert - Tomorrow: Treasurer Wooden Will Join Sen. Booker, Sen. Blumenthal, Rep. DeLauro and Rep. Larson to Celebrate Enactment of CT Baby Bonds and Urge Congress to Pass the American Opportunity Accounts Act to Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap; CT Baby Bonds Became First-of-its-Kind Enacted in the Nation

• 6/25/2019 Patch - $7.6 Million Slated for Enfield Water Pollution Control Plant; Recent Bond Sales Helped Generate More Than $280 Million for this and Similar Projects Across the State, According to the State Treasurer.

• 7/10/2019 Hartford Courant - Second Credit Rating Agency Upgrades Connecticut's Bond Outlook

• 7/10/2019 CTnewsJunkie.com: Credit Rating Agency Upgrades Outlook On Connecticut Bonds

• 3/25/2021 Treasurer Shawn Wooden, Local And Federal Leaders Call On The Legislature To Combat The Growing Racial Wealth Gap By Passing Connecticut “Baby Bonds” Bill, Endorsed By U.S. Senator Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Booker, And Congresswoman DeLauro; Baby Bonds Legislation Will Break Generational Cycles of Poverty While Benefiting Connecticut’s Economy

• 8/31/2020 Treasurer Wooden Releases State Cash Position To Governor Lamont; Shares Perspectives On Global And U.S. Market Climate And State Debt Issuance

• 3/5/2019 Treasurer Wooden Joins Global Investors Initiative to Tackle Carbon Pollution at Country's Largest Power Utilities; Coalition Representing $1.8 Trillion in Global Assets Sets Net-Zero Carbon Deadline for Big Polluters.

• 7/21/2024 Treasurer Russell Statement on President Biden’s Decision to Not Seek Reelection

• 5/25/2022 State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden Issues Statement in Response to Texas Shooting

• 6/27/2023 TREASURER RUSSELL AND GOVERNOR LAMONT BUILD AWARENESS FOR CT BABY BONDS AHEAD OF JULY 1 START DATE

• 5/16/2024 Treasurer Russell Hosts 2024 Connecticut Public Finance Outlook Conference, Brings Hundreds of Local Finance Professionals and Investors Together in New Haven