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Click HERE to listen to the interview. A recent report examines Connecticut’s eviction crisis and addresses some solutions to it. The report from Connecticut Voices for Children finds 39% of renters in the state who were not current on rent payments felt they would be evicted in the next two...

Toward the end of last year, 39% of Connecticut renters who were not current on their rent payments felt they were likely to face displacement due to eviction in the next two months. That’s according to a new report from Connecticut Voices for Children. The report, which is the first in a two-pa...

Good decisions require good data. On Monday, Connecticut politicians, journalists, and scholars gathered at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) to discuss the new policy landscape in the state and how scholars and students can help inform policy decisions at the Capitol in Hart...

HARTFORD — In an attempt to help families, senior citizens and restaurants, state legislators debated a panoply of tax proposals Monday as they try to find the right mix as they balance the state’s budget. With the state rolling up surpluses in recent years and another surplus of $1.3 billion p...

Click HERE to watch the story. After a hearing earlier this week on capping rising housing rents, state lawmakers heard even more Thursday about renters’ rights. Specifically on security deposits and landlord housing maintenance. “It’s so frustrating,” said Quanishe Flippen, a te...

After New Jersey raised its credit to 35% last year, CT advocates want to go further. “My phone would be ringing off the hook.” Lawmakers are weighing competing proposals to change Connecticut’s tax credit program for the film and media industry as local producers, crew and actors say they’r...

LISTEN • 49:00 This hour on Disrupted, we’re taking a look at Connecticut fiscal policy. Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell is the first openly gay Black person to be elected to statewide office in the country. We talk to Russell about his take on Connecticut’s finances and th...

Connecticut legislators will look through a different lens Wednesday when Gov. Ned Lamont proposes the next state budget. For the first time in state history, the governor must demonstrate what that plan will do to address longstanding inequalities in education, health care, housing and economic opp...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Schools throughout the country are looking for ways to make schools safer. In Connecticut, local leaders are looking to do that without increasing school resource officers. A press conference will be held here at the capital later today to discuss ways to improve the edu...

In most Connecticut school systems, you’ll find school resource officers. But on Wednesday, students and racial justice groups called for more rules – and more transparency – around how police operate in schools. “Back in 2019, a group of out-of-district police officers were buzzed into ...