It was cake and benefits on Friday when Representative Joe Courtney celebrated the 75th birthday of Social Security at the Enfield Senior Center. There was one large, vanilla cake for the twenty odd seniors and Courtney aides in attendance, and over $700 million in monthly benefits for the 611,276 social security recipients in Connecticut. Signed […]
August 14, 2010 @ 12:00 am
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Federal aid rules could be good for towns, bad for state budget
Connecticut’s school districts could be in line for a major economic boost this fiscal year, thanks to the new extension of federal stimulus funding – and a political miscalculation by the General Assembly and Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The $109 million in potential good fortune for local schools also could be part of a new […]