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EAST HARTFORD — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in East Hartford to mark the enhanced federal child tax credit now being paid with the goal of lifting families out of poverty, said Wednesday she wants to make the enhanced benefit permanent.
“The goal of the rescue package was to put vaccines in people’s arms [and] money in people’s pockets,’' the Democrat told reporters outside Goodwin University.
“We want to make it permanent.’'
Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, plans to introduce this fall — likely later this month — a revised bill, called Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust, to increase benefits and extend the program’s solvency.
Three local theaters that recently received a total of $238,000 from the federal government’s Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant have been able to reopen, staging a Beach Boys tribute concert and paying operating expenses.
Little Theatre of Manchester received $123,000, CAST Children’s Theatre in Manchester received $60,000, and Opera House Players in Enfield received $55,000.