In the News
By Mark Miller
May 5, 2022 May
Social Security has never failed to make its benefit payments since the mailing of monthly checks began in 1940, but most Americans these days are worried about the future of the program.
Three House Democrats introduced a bill last week to provide Americans with monthly direct payments through 2022 — or, at least, while prices remain exceptionally high.
The University of Connecticut has been awarded $662,400 in federal funding for research on the state’s crumbling foundations crisis.
The announcement was made Thursday by Democratic U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02) and John Larson (CT-01). The money was secured in the House of Representatives’ fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending package, the congressmen’s offices announced.
Connecticut’s congressional and Ukrainian-American community leaders condemned Russia’s wide-ranging attack on Ukraine Thursday and said the U.S. and its European allies will respond with the full force of crippling sanctions.
With President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation halted in the U.S. Senate, Connecticut Democrats hoped to drum up support Monday by highlighting the bill’s extension of a recently-expired monthly tax credit for families with children.
HARTFORD — A year later, some of Connecticut’s top elected leaders Thursday recalled the terrifying moments when violent insurrectionists stormed into the nation’s Capitol as Congress prepared to certify Joe Biden’s electoral vote win.