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Eligible low-income households will receive an automatic $257.87 per child as a back-to-school, COVID-19 relief benefit this weekend, Governor Ned Lamont announced Friday.
Known as the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund (PEAF), the money for the relief benefit comes from a $7 million federal grant to the Department of Social Services through the American Rescue Plan Act.
EAST HARTFORD — The town’s fire department will receive $875,000 in federal funding for essential equipment to help keep firefighters safe.
The grant is the largest amount of money the department has received from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, which is funded through the American Rescue Plan Act.
On Friday, town officials, members of the fire department, and state representatives gathered in front of the public safety complex to announce the funding.
EAST WINDSOR, CT – A 29-acre solar panel array and nearly 50 sheep served as the backdrop for two members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation on Thursday to tout clean energy investments included in the recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Rep. John Larson stepped carefully as they navigated around 19,000 solar panels and the scattered sheep droppings that populate the East Windsor Solar One array.
Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, wrote the following piece that appeared in The Hill:
Columnist Helaine Olen wrote the following piece that appeared in the Washington Post:
Social Security is an enormously popular program. It’s also hugely effective. Minus their monthly check, a large number of seniors would live in financially straitened circumstances.
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut is making a $580 million investment in construction-ready municipal water pollution control projects that will protect the state’s waters from sewage pollution and help improve water quality.
Hartford, CT - Mayor Luke Bronin and Community Partners in Action (CPA) joined U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, advocates, partners, participants, and state and local leaders to cut the ribbon on the expanded, improved Reentry Welcome Center (RWC) in Hartford at its new location at 716 Windsor Street. CPA is a statewide organization that provides support services for those who have recently been incarcerated. CPA and the City of Hartford opened the RWC in September 2018 at City Hall.
