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Jacqueline Rabe Thomas

Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.

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Best of 2021: No children allowed. Are wealthy CT towns building elderly housing to keep out poor families?

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas January 1, 2022

Advocates say some towns, like Branford, favor elderly complexes as a way to prevent construction of affordable housing for families.

Posted inNews

Best of 2021: Is the state’s vaccine rollout leaving behind Black and Latino residents?

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Kasturi Pananjady and Jenna Carlesso December 31, 2021February 4, 2022

Rolling out the COVID vaccine to older residents first means it’s more likely to go to white residents first.

Posted inEducation

‘Right to Read’ legislation passes as part of budget implementer

by Adria Watson and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas June 24, 2021March 5, 2022

Senator Pat Billie Miller was sworn in as the new state Senator for the 27th District representing parts of Stamford and Darien at the state Capitol earlier this spring. Legislation designed to improve grade-school reading curricula across the state — which was voted out of the Committee on Education in the spring but never came […]

Posted inInvestigations

No children allowed. Are wealthy CT towns building elderly housing to keep out poor families?

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas June 20, 2021March 5, 2022

Advocates say some towns, like Branford, favor elderly complexes as a way to prevent construction of affordable housing for families.

Posted inHealth

This undocumented immigrant has been stuck in the hospital for six months. And she’s not alone.

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Kasturi Pananjady June 15, 2021March 5, 2022

Without dialysis, Maria would have days to live. But because of Medicaid restrictions, she has to stay in the hospital.

Posted inNews

CT set to give $3,200 bonds to every child born into poverty

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas June 9, 2021March 5, 2022

The “Baby bonds” bill is an effort to tackle CT’s yawning wealth gap; Lamont expected to sign into law

Posted inMoney

See how your town fares in the new CT budget

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Kasturi Pananjady June 9, 2021March 5, 2022

An 8% increase in state aid to cities and towns is augmented by $3.2 billion in federal pandemic aid.

Sen. Douglas McCrory speaks Thursday at a news conference held by the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.
Posted inEducation

State budget opts to ‘hold harmless’ every town’s education funding

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas June 9, 2021March 5, 2022

The proposed state budget avoids taking education dollars away from well-off communities, as the school funding formula had called for.

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Woodbridge zoning officials take a small step toward affordable housing

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas June 8, 2021March 5, 2022

Officials voted to allow multi-family housing on a sliver of Woodbridge — provided such projects get prior approval.

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Senate passes controversial zoning reform bill

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 28, 2021March 5, 2022

The legislation, which nudges towns to loosen restrictive zoning policies, now heads to the governor’s desk.

Denise Martinez, right, community outreach coordinator at New Opportunities, explains the UniteCT program to a landlord who didn't want to be named. The rental assistance program requires application from both tenants and landlords.
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Senate votes to provide attorneys for tenants facing eviction

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 25, 2021March 5, 2022

The vote anticipates a wave of evictions that could come as pandemic-inspired state and federal moratoriums are lifted.

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CT’s civil rights enforcement agency: segregation has ‘particularly deadly effect’ amid pandemic

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 24, 2021March 5, 2022

The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities report links zoning segregation with the deadly impact of COVID on minority communities.

Posted inHousing

CT legislators underwhelmed with housing reform bill that passes House

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 20, 2021March 5, 2022

Legislation aimed at tackling Connecticut’s housing segregation was significantly scaled back before the House approved it Thursday.

Posted inHousing

Woodbridge officials say they want to sign off on all multi-unit developments

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 14, 2021March 5, 2022

Zoning officials in Woodbridge seem unlikely to allow developers to build multi-unit dwellings without permission.

Posted inPolitics

Lamont to state employees: Time to come back to the office

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 13, 2021March 5, 2022

The decision comes 15 months after state employees were directed to work from home.

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