December 2019 Newsletter – CAFCA

Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – December 6, 2019
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• CRT Shares '12 Ways of Giving' to Support Charitable Holiday Giving (Fox 61)
• Stuff-a-Cruiser for New Opportunities' Food Pantry
• HRA distributes 547 turkeys to families in need (Brian M. Johnson and Catherine Shen, New Britain Herald, 11/25/19)
• Critically-Needed Affordable Senior Housing Arrives in Tolland with Access Housing at Parker Place (Access Agency Press Release, 11/21/19)
• Lottery commission donated to Danbury charity (Julia Perkins, The Hour, 11/15/19)

• CT's wealth inequality remains a looming obstacle to tolling cars (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror 12/2/19)
• Eliminating food deserts won't help poorer Americans eat healthier (Hunt Allocott, Jean-Pierre Dubé and Molly Schnell, Route Fifty, 12/2/19)
• Separated by design: Why affordable housing is built in areas with crime, few jobs and struggling schools (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 11/25/19)
• Nonprofits say philanthropy alone can't save services (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 11/19/19)
• Study says Fairfield County has nation's highest wage inequality (Brian Woodman Jr., CT News Junkie, 11/19/19)
• Lawmakers continue bipartisan health insurance talks (Christine Stuart, CT News Junkie, 11/18/19)
• The surprising income equality in America (Red Jahncke, CT Post, 11/17/19)
• Veltri, Lembo aim to influence CT health policy debates with new tool (Matt Pilon, Hartford Business Journal, 11/15/19)
• Children are losing access to an extremely effective anti-poverty program: Medicaid (Joan Alker, Spotlight on Poverty & Opportunity, 11/13/19)

• New Opportunities Holiday Toy Drive
• TVCCA Annual Boot Drive