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
Members of the legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus traveled the state Monday visiting nursing homes from Stamford to Hartford … Continue reading Black and Puerto Rican Caucus Focuses on Nursing Home Workers
Federal workplace safety inspectors are investigating the death or hospitalization of at least three Connecticut elder care workers due to … Continue reading Federal Workplace Safety Officials Investigate Three Connecticut Nursing Homes
They don’t wear capes. But they do have masks. Doctors left their private practices to help staff emergency rooms and intensive … Continue reading Health Care Heroes: Saluting Front-Line Workers in the Battle Against the Coronavirus
Inmates in the state prison system are becoming increasingly aggressive toward staff due to the way the coronavirus pandemic is … Continue reading Unease Increases Among Inmates, DOC Employees
Growing up as the oldest girl among 10 siblings in a large Catholic family in Detroit, Mary Kay Henry learned … Continue reading ‘Working People Want Real Change’: A Union Chief Sounds Off on the Crisis
Connecticut
Even as the state Department of Correction significantly expands COVID-19 testing of incarcerated people, agency employees say that deep concerns … Continue reading Even with expanding COVID-19 testing, DOC employees describe ‘a perfect storm’ within Connecticut prisons and jails
A noisy caravan of union demonstrators descended on Greenwich on Thursday afternoon, putting a spotlight on what they say are … Continue reading ‘Money Bags and Body Bags’ protest rolls through affluent Greenwich neighborhoods
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
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