A new report looks at statewide financial instability for families with children in Connecticut, which experts say has gotten worse.
Poverty
Progressives urge Lamont to make permanent tax relief for the poor
Progressives urged Gov. Ned Lamont to tap swelling state revenues to secure permanent tax relief for low- and middle-income families.
Lamont uses federal COVID money to fund one-time tax relief for poor
Gov. Ned Lamont will re-direct $75 million in expiring federal COVID-19 relief into one-time tax refunds for Connecticut’s working poor.
Policy group challenges Lamont, lawmakers to fix regressive property tax system
1,000 Friends of Connecticut recommends pumping hundreds of millions of additional dollars into cities and towns — particularly poor communities.
Report: Thousands of Connecticut children would slide into poverty if enhanced federal tax break expires
About 600,000 Connecticut children, and the state’s economy, would be affected if Congress fails to renew key pandemic relief.
Labor chief: Forgiving millions in excess unemployment benefits is no easy task
The $30 million in excess unemployment benefits that thousands must repay to the state and federal governments likely will grow.
DeLauro pushes to preserve child tax credit
“There is an indifference” to child poverty in Congress, she says.
CT makes case for national ‘baby bond’ investments
The state passed its own version of this investment idea this year, but the proposal has yet to get widespread traction.
Lamont, legislators pressed to spread the federal pandemic relief a little further
State officials were pressed to share millions of coronavirus relief funds with workers and businesses. But there’s only so much.
Yale study links housing instability and risky sexual behaviors
Researchers have found evidence that landlord-related forced moves are associated with HIV sexual risk.
Scanlon forces Lamont to keep focused on tax fairness, relief for middle class
The new state budget mandates Connecticut’s first tax fairness study in seven years.
CT set to give $3,200 bonds to every child born into poverty
The “Baby bonds” bill is an effort to tackle CT’s yawning wealth gap; Lamont expected to sign into law
Progressives intensify push to aid poor, middle class as General Assembly session winds down
With two weeks left in the legislative session, progressives are making their strongest tax reform push in years.
Matt Ritter’s urban revitalization pitch is based on mid-1990s UConn renewal program
The House Speaker wants to repeat the success of UConn 2000 with Connecticut’s poorest urban centers by investing in cities.
House Democrats are preparing a compromise on urban investment program
The compromise is intended to appeal to both fiscal moderates and the party’s liberal wing.