Connecticut organizations that focus on aspects of the state’s history will be receiving 2021 Awards of Merit from the Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO) at a virtual awards on Tuesday, April 20. The awards come amidst a new commitment to expand diversity and equity across the organization’s membership.
Read MoreAs part of efforts to dismantle structural racism and improve social and economic mobility for Black and Latinx residents of Greater Hartford, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving seeks to increase the number of Hartford residents living in higher opportunity neighborhoods. Today, Connecticut is one of the most racially and economically segregated states in the country.
Read Moret’s all in the name – and the water. The company formerly known as Nestlé Waters North America, headquartered in Stamford and best known for its portfolio of water brands for healthy hydration, has begun operating under a new corporate name, BlueTriton Brands.
Read MoreMental Health Connecticut (MHC) has been awarded a Platinum level rating, the highest offered, for Mental Health America’s Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health. The Bell Seal is a first-of-its-kind workplace mental health certification that recognizes employers who strive to create mentally healthy workplaces for their employees.
Read MoreAs Connecticut appears increasingly likely to permit legal use of recreational marijuana, the Connecticut State Medical Society is again raising strident concerns about the public health dangers of doing so. The state legislature is actively considering legislation that could make marijuana use legal within the next year, and many observers have predicted approval is more likely than not.
Read MoreFifty-three years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the wealth gap between Black and white Americans is as wide as it has ever been. A new report argues that flexible and equitable homeownership programs are key to closing this gap, while providing recommendations on how lawmakers in Connecticut and beyond can create better homeownership assistance programs.
Read MoreThe RJ Media Group, publisher of the Meriden Record-Journal newspaper, has launched a Latino Communities Reporting Lab in partnership with the Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation. The initiative grew out of conversations with community stakeholders and those who participated in a listening tour conducted in Meriden and surrounding communities within the paper’s circulation area during the last five months.
Read MoreMore than one-third of Connecticut veterans served during the Vietnam era, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data. More than 60,000 state residents served during the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The next highest period of service is during the Gulf War, with just over 47,000 veterans in Connecticut having served in the armed forces during those years.
Read MoreOver three million children – a total of 4.3% of the under-18 population in the United States - had a disability in 2019, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The childhood disability rate in the United States was higher in 2019 than in 2008, up 0.4 percentage points. Connecticut was slightly higher.
Read MoreSeeking to better inform local policymakers, nonprofit Norwalk Acts has unveiled two new “data dashboards,” one containing information about the readiness of Norwalk’s children to enter kindergarten, and the other offering important facts gathered from the City’s 2010 Census.
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