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COVID-19

The Future Of Work: Gender Disparities In The Workplace Worsen During The Pandemic

  • June 11, 2020

This is part of a series of shows from Where We Live about the future of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused major disruptions for workers’ careers,

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Connecticut

Disparities in Hispanic and black death rates much worse than previously reported

  • May 29, 2020

After reporting for weeks that Connecticut Hispanics are only half as likely to die from COVID-19 as non-Hispanic whites, state officials now say that Hispanics here are substantially more likely to die

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They Look After Our Most Vulnerable. They Make Around $16,200 a Year.

  • May 20, 2020

It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the coronavirus pandemic — to help them take medication or go

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COVID-19

Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level

  • May 19, 2020

The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus is crafting a letter urging town and city councils, local

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COVID-19

Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded

  • May 13, 2020

Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb the spread of COVID-19 among one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

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COVID-19

Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care

  • May 8, 2020

When the pandemic struck, the majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others were struggling to attract new occupants, leaving many of them

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Connecticut

CT State Workers Keep Essential Services in Operation Through COVID-19 Crisis

  • May 6, 2020

Connecticut state essential workers from Southbury Training School, the Department of Correction, Connecticut Valley Hospital and other agencies will share their stories from the front lines of novel coronavirus. “Three

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COVID-19

Milford nursing home worker dies of COVID-19 after being on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis

  • April 21, 2020

Read the Story from The Hartford Courant HereAngeline Bernadel loved her job at West River Healthcare Center in Milford. But by mid-March, the 52-year-old nurse had become concerned about the

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A Union-made Solution to the PPE Shortage

  • March 31, 2020

Below is a UConn Health Labor Coalition report made publicly available and open to news media citation, reproduction and distribution in full or in part.  For questions or contact info

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Connecticut

Coronavirus brings new challenges for CT home health aides, clients

  • March 25, 2020

Social distancing is one way to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but for health care workers who provide care in people’s homes, especially for the elderly, that type of care brings

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