December 2017 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – December 22, 2017
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• TVCCA holds annual Santa Winter Boot Drive
• TEAM holds annual Festival of Trees and Toys 4 Kids
• 3rd annual food and toy drive benefits Access families
• CRT holds 9th annual Gun Buy Back (Joseph Wenzel IV and Rebecca Cashman, WFSB)
• HRA, United Way collect, distribute toys to kids (Lorenzo Burgio, The Bristol Press, 12/15/17)

• Congress turns its sights on budget mess that has special impact in CT (Ana Radelat, CT Mirror, 12/20/17)
• Session for Medicare fix delayed until early January (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 12/19/17)
• Reductions in poverty, uninsurance at risk due to new budget (Ray Noonan and Karen Diegel, Connecticut Voices for Children, 12/18/17)
• CT's poor find winter energy bills increasingly unaffordable (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 12/15/17)
• Legislature headed for a holiday session to fix social services program (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 12/14/17)
• Energy affordability gap widens (Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 12/13/17)