In Connecticut, nearly 1 in 10 children lives in poverty—but in Waterbury, it’s 22%. After pandemic aid dropped child poverty by nearly 70%, rates have since surged past pre-pandemic levels. Over 100 organizations statewide are uniting to End Child Poverty Now through bold, coordinated advocacy and urgent policy reform.
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Is CT a great place to be a child? For many, no.
It’s time to stop treating childhood poverty as an inevitable reality and start treating it as the solvable problem it is.