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The I’M HOME initiative will provide assistance to income-eligible residents in hopes of strengthening New Haven neighborhoods.
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At a small church in Bridgeport, one nonprofit has helped hundreds of domestic workers collect wages that were stolen from them.
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Nine months into negotiations, nurses at Windham Hospital are on strike over the next two days.
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In 2019, Connecticut was home to the sixth-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States.
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In March, Hartford school administrators and recruiters made their way to Puerto Rico looking for bilingual talent to fill content areas like math, science and history.It’s part of Paso a Paso, a program to recruit bilingual teachers to fill much-needed roles in Hartford.
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In Connecticut, protections for people who rent their homes are limited. Tenants unions aren’t new, but they've gained momentum in Connecticut over the past year, with at least five tenants unions having formed.
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Connecticut residents — and their pets — are both at risk of housing insecurity as rents rise and units are scarce. Now some animal shelters are starting to see slightly more pets surrendered due to owner displacement and economic factors, compared to pre-pandemic years.
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A local community production aims to celebrate the diversity of Blackness. The performance was created by an international Afro-feminist art collective and will be a U.S. premiere.
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Teenagers frequently run away in Waterbury. The students of Waterbury Youth Services wanted to know why. In this podcast episode, teens from Waterbury find out why kids run away and what happens after they are found.
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The hourly wage Connecticut residents need to afford rental housing in the local market is one of the highest in the country — and it's nearly double the state's $14-an-hour minimum wage.