Contact House and Senate Leadership TODAY! Stop a tax hike on Connecticut’s working-poor families! Call leadership NOW to make sure last year’s cut to the earned income tax credit (EITC) is reversed as planned. The Connecticut EITC reduces the income … Continue reading
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The nation is shocked that Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families has sent an abused girl in its care – a girl facing no criminal charges – to an adult prison. I wish that I could be shocked, too. However, … Continue reading
A legislative committee approved a controversial first contract Tuesday between the state and the union representing nearly 11,000 personal care attendants who help the elderly and disabled remain in their homes. The workers, who originally gained bargaining rights through an … Continue reading
Callers who wanted to talk to a Department of Social Services worker by phone last month had to wait an average of 39 minutes and 29 seconds to do so. That’s down from one hour and 13 minutes in February. … Continue reading
Funding Will Spur an Additional $116 Million in Private Investment (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy, Department of Housing (DOH) Commissioner Evonne M. Klein, and Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) President and Executive Director Eric Chatman today announced investments … Continue reading
In April, the providers of Opening Doors-New Haven will launch a 100-Day initiative to kick-start their Coordinated Access system and to make strides toward ending chronic homelessness. Alison Cunningham, executive director of Columbus House, and John Bradley, executive director of … Continue reading
I’m not going to lie, my experience at UConn has been an inexorable, maladaptive struggle since I arrived last January. Masochistically subscribing to the pre-med track, I have sought to pursue a career that requires studying multiple difficult math and … Continue reading
Hi, this is Mayor Toni Harp, and I want to provide you with some important information about signing up for health insurance. There are free health insurance enrollment events every week in the City of New Haven where you will … Continue reading
Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce, despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programs to help them. Even when they find work, it’s often part time, in a dead-end job or for … Continue reading
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, joined by Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, state Department of Aging Commissioner Edith Prague and state and local officials, has announced that he is proposing an increase of more than $6.5 million during the upcoming regular session … Continue reading