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Remington will base its appeal on a federal law that protects gun makers from liability for the harm caused by their products.
Gov. Ned Lamont conceded Tuesday that he won’t win new limits on cost-of-living adjustments to state employee pensions.
Three critical gubernatorial appointments appeared to easily clear the legislature’s joint committee on executive and legislative nominations Tuesday.
The governor won't reappoint long-serving trustee Denis J. Nayden, who backed Lamont’s Republican opponent Bob Stefanowski last fall.
Gov. Ned Lamont wants to make it easier for businesses to work with the state, eliminating thousands of unnecessary forms Connecticut must process annually.
Thomas E. Kruger is being shown the door. So is Denis Nayden, who supported Gov. Ned Lamont's opponent last year.
A new group called Freedom Project USA is attacking Hayes for her support of the Green New Deal.
Republican lawmakers say this still might not be enough to win their support for the bill, however.
Amy Lappos of Connecticut is the second woman to say Joe Biden touched her inappropriately.
Last Friday, Gov. Ned Lamont announced a $100 million donation to the state of Connecticut from the Dalio Philanthropies “to strengthen public education and promote greater economic opportunity.” The five year initiative is to be matched two-to-one by the state and unspecified private donors, with state funds this year coming from surplus dollars. On its surface, this sounds like good news. The New Haven Public Schools face a staggering $30 million deficit. Our children, ages 4, 8, 9, and 11, attend Columbus Family Academy and the Engineering Science University Magnet School.
The following essay — one of four to be published this week — appeared in the recently released 2018 KIDS COUNT Data Book, Taking Stock: Considering the Future of Child Well-Being and Family Opportunity in Connecticut. It is published by The Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS), an affiliate of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT […]
They say that there are two most important days in our lives, the day that we are born and the day that we find out why. Many people are never fortunate enough to experience that second day. I was born on June 5, 1980, and I started working for Oak Hill, the state's largest private provider of services for people with disabilities, on April 30, 2001. I was 20 years old, and I had no idea what I was doing or what I was getting myself involved in.
Decades of research continue to confirm the obvious; poverty is bad for children. As evidenced by a 2015 report from the Urban Institute, the more time children spend living in poverty, the worse their outcomes are across nearly every domain. Compared to their peers who are never poor, the nearly 40 percent of children who experience poverty at some point during their childhood fare worse in educational achievement and employment, teen births, and even involvement with the criminal justice system. When we fail to alleviate generational poverty we prevent our children﹘and our society as a whole﹘from reaching their fullest potential.
