Nonprofit agencies say they aren’t treated as “essential healthcare workers,” provided little PPE and on brink of financial catastrophe.
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Providers warn coronavirus is straining Connecticut’s safety net
Nonprofit social services are struggling to keep programs open. Closures would leave clients unprotected and would financially doom some agencies.
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Lamont’s health budget vs Connecticut hospitals
Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget replaces a previously approved tax cut for hospitals with a $43 million tax hike.
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Nonprofits press CT to privatize more social services
Connecticut’s private, nonprofit social service agencies released an agenda Wednesday that includes further privatization of state-sponsored services.
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Public vs. private social services debate reaches the Lamont transition
Advocates for public- and private-sector social services workers offered competing recommendations to Gov.-elect Ned Lamont’s transition team on how to finance and deliver state-sponsored human services amidst lean budget conditions.
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Malloy would reduce, dramatically redistribute school aid in October
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy would reduce grants to school districts by 28 percent in October — if no state budget has been adopted — and would dramatically shift funding away from wealthy and middle-income communities and into poorer ones.