GALES FERRY, CT – New London County is the fourth largest of Connecticut’s eight counties but has the smallest population with just under 270,000 residents. But according to The Connecticut Project's Courtney McNally-Parkerson, the shortage of childcare options in the county has reached crisis levels and is just as great, if not more so, than it is in the state's more densely populated counties of Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford.
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The pandemic years were an unusually fraught time for the distressing number of New London County households ― more than one-third ― struggling to close the widening gap between their earnings and d.
After extra COVID SNAP benefits ended in February, it did not take long for food pantries in Connecticut to see more people in need of help. “It puts a lot of.