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Connecticut Lawmakers Vote to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis


Connecticut Lawmakers Vote to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis
Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, April 21, 2021
Prompted by wide racial health disparities during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a key legislative committee voted Wednesday to declare racism as a public health crisis and create a special, 28-member commission to study the issue.
Since the pandemic started more than a year ago, a far higher percentage of minority residents in Connecticut have contracted COVID-19 and have died from the virus compared to white residents.
The budget-writing appropriations committee voted on a bipartisan basis in favor of the bill.
The new Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health “shall develop and periodically update a comprehensive strategic plan to eliminate health disparities and inequities across sectors, including consideration of the following: air and water quality, natural resources and agricultural land, affordable housing, infrastructure sy ....

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Committee advances Democratic budget focused on equity


Committee advances Democratic budget focused on equity
SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
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The Connecticut General Assembly s budget-writing committee approved, along party lines, a proposed two-year $46 billion state spending plan crafted by the majority Democrats who say that it attempts to address many equity issues that came to light during the pandemic and the nation s reckoning on race.
The committee s budget bill is essentially a response to Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont s proposed budget unveiled in February, which also spends roughly $46 billion over two years. However, it includes more money than Lamont s budget for financially struggling nonprofit agencies that provide social services, as well as to local health and school districts, workforce development programs, higher education and other initiatives. ....

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