July 2017 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – July 6, 2017
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• HRA hopes to it can find a way to keep food pantry going (Skylar Frazer, New Britain Herald, 7/1/17)
• With no state budget, HRA programs wait and worry (Skylar Frazer, New Britain Herald, 7/1/17)

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• CRT honors senior volunteers involved with the agency’s Senior Community Cafés
• HRA annual meeting dishes awards to community members (Skyler Frazer, New Britain Herald, 6/15/17)
• Volunteers spread word about summer lunch program for kids in Meriden (Lauren Takores, My Record Journal, 6/21/17)

• DeLauro fights political winds with book making case for social safety net (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 7/2/17)
• Malloy prepares CT for life without a new state budget (Keith Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/30/17)
• Budget standoff could spread funding pain into the fall (Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant, 6/29/17)
• Malloy, unions agree on sending tentative concessions to a vote (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/26/17)
• Prolonged CT budget standoff will hurt towns, disabled, needy (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 6/26/17)
• Pre-K boosts future incomes, reduces risk of jail, when schools spend more (Matt Barnum, CT Mirror, 6/18/17)
• Nonprofit community says budget delay will hurt Connecticut residents (Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 6/16/17)
• Report shows well-being of CT children rising (Andrea Sears, Public News Service, 6/13/17)
• The Trump budget's massive cuts to state and local services and programs (Iris J. Lav and Michael Leachman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/13/17)
• City program guides those released from prison (Shahid Abdul-Karim, U.S. News, 6/12/17)
• Program gives city youth second chance with meaningful work (Vinny Vella, U.S. News, 6/12/17)