Students should not have to worry about being hungry at school.

It is time that Connecticut moves away from its history of segregation and provides access to safe and affordable housing for all families.

It is good for Lamont to chart a hopeful and unifying course for his second term. But, let’s not do so by avoiding the persistent and central challenges facing our state and nation.

Connecticut is an example of the preventable nature of gun violence. Our gun death rates are consistently the lowest in the nation – in large part due to Connecticut’s legal framework

Connecticut citizens deserve what 46 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. territories have: the opportunity to vote on more than one day. 

Health care professionals can now petition for firearms to be removed when a person is at risk, but many don’t know enough about the new law.

In cities like Hartford, the gun violence crisis is ongoing and will not be solved through gun laws alone. It will require us to address poverty and violence caused by systemic racism.

Many of Connecticut’s community college students struggle to complete their studies, and remedial courses are substantial obstacles. Here’s a better way to help them.

Making the EITC expansion permanent rewards work, benefits children, and makes a long-term investment in the state.

I urge elected leaders and education advocates to attend to how desegregation efforts are impacting Asian American students —a diverse and growing, but often overlooked, population.

Conventional wisdom blames the current labor shortage on overly generous federal unemployment benefits. Such benefits can pay nearly as much as an hourly worker’s salary but are taken away upon accepting a job, making it reasonable to believe they could discourage a return to work. However, recent research shows that the impact of these benefits is likely small.

The appointment of Miguel A. Cardona as the 12th Secretary of Education and the passing of the American Rescue Plan of 2021 does make it feel like spring, in fact, has sprung. The possibility of equitable school environments for our nation’s children appears tangible, however, recovery must attend to more than filling holes with intent to return to a “new normal.”