In the United States, Latino children are more than two times as likely to be without health insurance as non-Latino children. In Connecticut, while the disparity is not as great, it has also grown wider in recent years. The uninsured rate for Latino children in Connecticut is 4.8%, compared with 3.1% for non-Latino children, a difference of more than 1.5 times.
Read MoreAt the start of state legislative sessions in 2021, approximately 2,259 women were serving in the 50 state legislatures across the country, making up 30.6% of all state legislators nationwide - an all-time high. Connecticut’s percentage was higher, and also an all-time high.
Read MoreThe number of children ready for kindergarten in Norwalk, Connecticut has increased by 7% in two school years, according to data in a recent case study conducted on Norwalk’s Prenatal to Three Initiative.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Health Foundation, the state’s largest independent health philanthropy dedicated to improving health outcomes for people of color, has awarded five organizations, in Bridgeport, Hartford and Middletown, 15-month grants ranging from $62,500 to $82,000, to support their advocacy work to expand access to health care coverage. Additional grants support the ongoing work of other organizations across the state.
Read MoreWhile New England's undergraduate population is becoming increasingly diversified, there is still a demographic "mismatch" between the percentage of students of color relative to faculty of color in Connecticut. A new higher education report assesses where Connecticut stands, and what needs to be done.
Read MoreConnecticut’s population grew by nine-tenths of one percent during the decade between April 2010 and April 2020, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Connecticut had 3,605,944 residents on April 1, 2020, compared with 3,574,097 on April 1, 2010, the date of the previous decennial census. That’s an increase of 31,847 residents.
Read MoreConnecticut Congressman Jim Himes’s past, it turns out, is prologue for a new, high-profile, assignment. Himes was selected by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as Chairman of a newly created Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, leading the Congressional effort to respond to a growing disparity that has been exacerbated - and more blatantly exposed - by the pandemic.
Read More“We will likely need a booster shot for durability of protection,” explained Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on a Connecticut-based podcast this week, adding that unlike vaccines for some other diseases – such as measles - that essentially offer lifelong projection, “we are not likely to see that.”
Read MoreThe childhood disability rate in the United States was higher in 2019 than in 2008, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau concludes that “disability does not appear to affect all children equally.” Connecticut’s childhood disability rate was slightly higher than the national average in the latest data, as was the Northeast region of the U.S.
Read MoreAs the collegiate semester winds down and in-person commencement ceremonies hint at a return to near-normalcy, the past year, and particularly the past few months, have ongoing ramifications for the University of Connecticut’s Asian-American community, as is true on campuses and in communities across the country.
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