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State lawmakers are scrambling to deal with the expected financial fallout from President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” with many in blue states demanding special legislative sessions they
U.S. Treasury yields moved higher on Friday as President Donald Trump slapped 35% tariffs on Canada and investors digested a week of trade drama.
As a federally qualified health center, the Hartford-based non-profit treats all patients, regardless of ability to pay. The center operates on a "shoestring budget," chief compliance officer Timothy Powers said Monday, but sustains itself largely through Medicaid reimbursement.
After years of lobbying, CT food banks landed $9M in state funding for 2026-27. But boost comes amid federal cuts to nutrition assistance.
Education. “Our students need support and certainty and our school boards must be able to rely on commitments made by the federal government, just as we teach our students to honor their
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CT Insider on MSNChris Powell (opinion): Does Trump's budget really spell doom for Connecticut?According to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, the federal budget just enacted by the Republican majority in Congress and President Trump is nearly the end of the world. The governor says the budget will have "devastating impact on millions of Americans for years to come and was passed for the sole purpose of giving tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
“Depending on your perspective, this bill contains either a number of Easter eggs or a number of Trojan horses for individuals and the economy,” said Brian Marks, a senior lecturer in the department of economics and business analytics at the University of New Haven.
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I actually didn’t think I would be in this position so young to work for the president of the United States of America,” he said.
Donald Trump’s return to power comes against a backdrop of the well-known anti-environmental legacy of his first term. His assertion that climate change was a “hoax,” was followed by the ...