Connecticut ranks fifth in the percentage of the population with vaccinations. Still, racial disparities in the rollout remain.
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How people with disabilities are accessing the coronavirus vaccine
Many in the disability community are left to navigate the process on their own.
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Postal union: Sorting equipment dismantled in CT remains in pieces despite hold on service cuts
Two sorting machines in Wallingford facility have been dismantled. Each handles 35,000 pieces of mail.
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Census rushes to respond to request to add citizenship question
The Census Bureau is scrambling to respond to a last-minute request by the Justice Department to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 census, according to hundreds of pages of emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Facebook (still) letting housing advertisers exclude users by race
In February, Facebook said it would step up enforcement of its prohibition against discrimination in advertising for housing, employment or credit. But tests by ProPublica showed a significant lapse in the company’s monitoring of the rental market.
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The NICS failing to keep guns from dangerous people
While the National Instant Criminal Background Check System remains the only square inch of compromise between the nation’s divided gun camps, the costly federal program is failing to keep guns away from the dangerously mentally ill.
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Hartford city hall opens health clinic
Across the country, health care providers, insurers, employers and politicians say they are trying to make it easier to be healthy. It’s even one of the cornerstones of the controversial Affordable Care Act, in which preventative care comes at no extra cost to the patient. Now, Hartford City Hall is joining in — with a […]
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Health insurers move ahead, with or without individual mandate
For the health policy world, the Supreme Court’s tough questioning of the individual mandate last week was a seismic event. But in Hartford, the city sometimes called the epicenter of the insurance industry, David Cordani isn’t quaking. Cordani is the CEO of Cigna, the nation’s fourth-largest health insurer. He says the insurance industry started changing […]
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Digging into public financing: From clerical errors to cash for constituents
Advocates of the state’s Citizens’ Election Fund say that the program succeeded in 2008 – keeping special interest money out of political campaigns by pumping public money in. How much money? Typical Senate candidates in contested races could have gotten as much as $85,000 for the general election. House candidates in the same situation could […]
