The state has been Mufasa Abdulbasil’s guardian for nearly 10 years, seeing to his needs for everything from food and shelter to clothes for school. But unless he goes to college when he turns 18–something he’s not sure about now–he’ll be on his own. “It’s really scary to think about,” said the 16-year old foster […]
October 3, 2011 @ 12:00 am
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Recall of all 56 laid off troopers eases acrimony
The recall today of 56 state troopers laid off during the summer’s bitter fight over wage-and-benefit concessions suddenly has their union and the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy singing the same happy tune. “Today is a very happy day,” Reuben F. Bradford, the commissioner the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said as […]
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When green jobs open up, will workforce be there?
Gateway Community College in New Haven had great expectations for the inaugural term of its Center for a Sustainable Future, with 10 continuing education courses from hands-on solar training in a brand-new lab to certification as a sustainable building adviser. But so far, only two of the courses have enough people enrolled to make them […]
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Simplifying the instructions for patients and their caregivers
Helping to care for her 94-year-old mother, Shelley Dietz noticed a problem, one with implications for much of the health care system. Dietz’s mother has heart failure, a condition that requires patients to drastically limit their salt intake and weigh themselves regularly. But when she stayed in a nursing home, Dietz’s mother got salty food, […]
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Komen report lists “target towns,” reasons for late breast cancer diagnosis
Connecticut has the second-highest incidence of breast cancer in the country, but is among the lower third of states when it comes to breast cancer deaths, according to a report released Monday by the Connecticut affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer advocacy organization. To give a picture of breast cancer […]
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Pew: Recession fueled increase in multi-generation households
Battered by the recent recession, millions of Americans “enacted their own anti-poverty program” by moving in with relatives, resulting in the largest increase in multi-generation households in modern history, a new Pew Resarch Center analysis of U.S. Census data says. The number of Americans living in multi-generation households has been growing steadily since 1980, driven […]
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Hartford has 2nd highest Hispanic unemployment rate in the country
A Washington, D.C.-based economic think tank released a report Monday saying the Hartford metropolitan area has the second highest rate of Hispanic unemployment in the country, behind Providence, R.I. The non-partisan Economic Policy Institute reported Hartford’s Hispanic unemployment rate at 23.5 percent in 2010, topped only by Providence at 25.2 percent. The rest of the […]
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Emergency department directors: VIPs get care faster
Many emergency department directors at Connecticut hospitals say their departments expedite care for very important persons and see doing so as “vaguely unethical but necessary,” according to a letter written by Hartford Hospital emergency medicine director Dr. A.J. Smally and published this month in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine. Smally and four colleagues wrote […]