CT’s minimum wage hike has many poor families heading toward a ‘benefits cliff’

As seen with the vaccine rollouts of Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, many groups, particularly seniors and communities of color, have had disproportionate results in receiving doses. As we continue to vaccinate the population and eventually enter the recovery phase of this pandemic, it is crucial that any health equity promotion and advocacy include digital and technological equity, too.

Days before her new appointment, Interim Educational Deputy Commissioner Charlene Russel-Tucker filed testimony opposing bipartisan legislation House Bill 6517, An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Task Force to Analyze the Implementation of Laws Governing Dyslexia Instruction and Training, citing lack of capacity, expertise, and funding.

Connecticut has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation built into its Constitution. These restrict people to a single day of voting (the first Tuesday in November) and limit use of the absentee ballot option to people who are ill or out of town for work  Few people can plan an illness and not everyone knows when they will be out of town for work.

or the past year frontline health care workers stood in the way of danger, working throughout the pandemic in nursing homes, home care, substance-abuse counseling and helping children in need. Yet, somehow, health care workers and their patients are forgotten in Connecticut’s proposed budget, freezing or even cutting spending for workers and services urgently needed by the state’s most fragile populations.

I don’t want to wake up in a Connecticut that got surpassed by North Dakota, of all places, in terms of marijuana laws.

With the 25th anniversary of the Sheff v. O’Neill decision coming up in July, it’s time to fulfill the ruling’s true legacy and reform exclusionary zoning in Connecticut.