COVID-19
Picture being developmentally disabled, out of work, and trying to navigate the labyrinth of obtaining unemployment benefits that has frustrated … Continue reading Pandemic Creates New Challenges For Disabled
This is part of a series of shows from Where We Live about the future of work after the COVID-19 … Continue reading The Future Of Work: Gender Disparities In The Workplace Worsen During The Pandemic
Connecticut
After reporting for weeks that Connecticut Hispanics are only half as likely to die from COVID-19 as non-Hispanic whites, state … Continue reading Disparities in Hispanic and black death rates much worse than previously reported
It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the … Continue reading They Look After Our Most Vulnerable. They Make Around $16,200 a Year.
The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus … Continue reading Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level
Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb … Continue reading Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded
When the pandemic struck, the majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others … Continue reading Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care
Connecticut
Connecticut state essential workers from Southbury Training School, the Department of Correction, Connecticut Valley Hospital and other agencies will share … Continue reading CT State Workers Keep Essential Services in Operation Through COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19
Read the Story from The Hartford Courant HereAngeline Bernadel loved her job at West River Healthcare Center in Milford. But … Continue reading Milford nursing home worker dies of COVID-19 after being on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis
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Below is a UConn Health Labor Coalition report made publicly available and open to news media citation, reproduction and distribution … Continue reading A Union-made Solution to the PPE Shortage