April 2018 Newsletter – Connecticut Association for Community Action

Connecticut Association for Community Action

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CAFCA Connections – April 27, 2018
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Connecticut's Community Action Agency network held a Community Action Information Day at the Legislative Office Building Concourse in Hartford last week...

• TVCCA's Annual Benefit for Meals on Wheels raises $41,000 (TVCAA Facebook)
• Dozens take advantage of 'Free Tax Preparation Services' in Hartford (Aisha Mbowe, Fox 61, 4/17/18)
• Courtney honors veterans' coffeehouse volunteers (Stephanie Menders, Norwich Bulletin, 4/4/18)

• Parties sharply divided over higher ed, labor costs, transportation (Keith M. Phaneuf and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 4/23/18)
• America once fought a war against poverty - now it wages a war on the poor (Reverend William Barber and Dr Liz Theoharis, The Guardian, 4/20/18)
• The cost of keeping children poor (Mark R. Rank, The New York Times, 4/15/18)
• As tax day approaches, Connecticut residents take advantage of free tax prep service (Frankie Graziano, Connecticut Public Radio, 4/15/18)
• Work alone is often not enough to lift people out of poverty (Demetra Smith Nightingale and Pamela J. Loprest, Urban Wire, 4/13/18)
• Conaway SNAP proposals would increase food insecurity and hardship (Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 4/12/18)
• Homeless children are 3 times as likely to be suspended at some schools (Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times, 4/11/18)
• Kids in tough neighborhoods head to ER more often (Serena Gordon, U.S. News, 4/6/18)
• Income, race big factors in rates of "gifted" students (Shannon Gilchrist, Canton Rep, 3/29/18)
• U.S. opioid ODs cluster in centers of poverty (Steven Reinberg, U.S. News, 3/26/18)

• CRT's Women's Empowerment Fundraiser, May 2