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Posted inMoney

Only half of eligible households have claimed CT’s $250-per-child tax rebate

Avatar photo by Keith M. Phaneuf July 21, 2022 @ 5:00 amJuly 20, 2022 @ 6:26 pm

The child tax rebate is available to single parents who earned $100,000 or less and to couples who make $200,000 or less.

Posted inPolitics

Governor’s housing development advisor leaves administration

Avatar photo by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas August 26, 2020 @ 2:50 pmMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:37 am

Lisa Tepper Bates, point person for housing and retail development near public transportation, is leaving to lead United Way of Connecticut.

Posted inHousing

Homelessness fell 24% in three years. How did Connecticut do it?

Avatar photo by Kyle Constable June 21, 2017 @ 5:00 amMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:16 pm

Advocates fighting to bring an end to homelessness altogether say their once-seemingly unrealistic goal may at last be reachable in Connecticut, a state that not long ago was a laggard nationally but has emerged as a model.

Posted inPolitics

CT says it’s on track to end chronic homelessness by year end

Avatar photo by Kyle Constable August 23, 2016 @ 5:55 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 10:57 pm

WATERBURY — Connecticut is on pace to eliminate chronic homelessness by the end of the year, the state’s top housing official said at a press conference in Waterbury Tuesday.

Posted inEducation

Child care funding: A choice between the struggling and destitute

Avatar photo by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas February 16, 2016 @ 6:37 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 10:48 pm

On Tuesday morning, in a room at the state Capitol complex, a single small number seemed to tell its own story about the fiscal bind legislators are likely to find themselves in over and over again this session.

Posted inMoney, Politics

Connecticut sees an end to chronic homelessness in 2016

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas January 21, 2015 @ 6:47 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 10:33 pm

Fifty-one years after Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war” on poverty in his first State of the Union, anti-poverty workers allowed themselves a small celebration Wednesday, cheering an assertion that Connecticut is on the verge of eliminating chronic and veterans’ homelessness.

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