Boston Fed and CT community foundations fight for inclusive recovery
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Dr. Michael Wolter remotely runs a Professional Skills Academy at Goodwin University in East Hartford. “You want to find a mentor at a workplace,” Dr. Wolter said. The workshop is a 4-week program.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, cities in Connecticut and across the country were coming back, but unevenly. Typically, downtowns were prospering, but some impoverished neighborhoods, usually home to communities of color, still struggled.
The pandemic, as has been widelyreported, made things worse, exposing and aggravating racial disparities in employment and wealth, health care, housing and criminal justice. The challenges of responding to this urgent plight were described in a 12-part CT Mirror series in 2020.
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