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Farrar Touting Legislative Child Care Initiative

Reply State Rep. Kate Farrar testified before the legislature’s Education Committee during a Monday. (Chris Dehnel/Patch) HARTFORD On International Women s Day, State Rep. Kate Farrar (D – West Hartford) testified before the legislature s Education Committee during a Monday public hearing in support of a legislative proposal that would help reduce the cost of child care in Connecticut and ensure more women can get back to work post-pandemic. On this International Women s Day, we can celebrate women by taking concrete policy action that will improve our lives, our economic security, and in turn our state, Farrar said. Connecticut cannot get back to work if women cannot get back to work. And women cannot get back to work unless there are opportunities to access affordable child care and the child care support necessary to complete education and training. In this moment, our state can lead a recovery that focuses on fairness and equity.

For a brief shining moment we were all connected

For a brief shining moment we were all connected What could you do with $100 million? What could you do with $100 million in every state, plus more for poor or rural states, for broadband infrastructure and programs to reach every child trying to join Zoom calls with their teacher, to connect every harried parent trying to do to their job virtually while monitoring the home schooling in the kitchen, to bring a doctor to every senior or medically vulnerable person afraid to leave their house for fear of contracting COVID-19? Elin Swanson Katz That was the joyful, wonderful question those of us in the broadband world were asking ourselves for about 48 hours last week. After months of speculation about infrastructure money in the next stimulus bill, and weeks of rumor about a really big tranche of money for states to spend bringing high-speed broadband to every corner of every community, we saw it: a Wednesday night draft online of the Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, the st

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