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Connecticut Voices for Children
New Haven, Connecticut ·Connecticut Voices for Children works to promote the well-being of all of Connecticut’s children and families by identifying and advocating for strategic public investments and wise public policies.
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Connecticut Voices for Children’s Issue Briefing Book 2020-2022
- July 27, 2020
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Connecticut Voices for Children
Connecticut Voices for Children released their Issue Briefing Book 2020-2022. Versions of this document have been developed throughout the 25 years of the organization’s history. As the state experiences the convergence of a health crisis, an economic recession due to that crisis, and a contentious and long-overdue conversation on race, the “Book” has been refreshed given […]
Impact of the Governor’s FY 2019 Budget Adjustments on Children and Families
- February 20, 2018
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ray Noonan, Lauren Ruth, Ph.D., Ellen Shemitz, J.D., Karen Siegel, Camara Stokes Hudson, Nicole Updegrove, and Jane McNichol, J.D.
Connecticut’s long-term fiscal health depends on an economy that benefits all families, businesses, and communities. To achieve this objective, the state needs a strategic budget that balances investment with fiscal responsibility. In this report, we find that the Governor’s latest budget proposal would move Connecticut away from these goals. Under the Governor’s plan, the Children’s Budget, […]
Connecticut needs to make strategic investments to grow its economy
- February 7, 2018
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ellen Shemitz
In CTViewpoints, Ellen Shemitz writes: The long-term fiscal stability and health of our state depend upon economic growth that affords shared prosperity to families, businesses, and communities. This kind of growth can only occur in a state that has a competitive business environment, a prepared workforce, a commitment to race equity and a fiscally sound state […]
Next steps for Connecticut’s fiscal stability and economic growth
- January 31, 2018
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ellen Shemitz, Alex Knopp
From CT Viewpoints: Connecticut is poised for a serious debate over the size and role of its future government as it prepares for a new legislative session in February and a new business-led economic commission due to issue its report on March 1. How should the state view the options during this historic debate?
The State of Working Connecticut (2017)
- September 1, 2017
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ray Noonan
Children do well when families do well, and families do well in part when the economy provides jobs with fair wages and good benefits. Yet since the Great Recession, the share of well-paying jobs in Connecticut has shrunk, and the state’s lagging economic recovery has left many—including youth, black workers, and the less educated—behind. In […]
The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Early Care
- July 1, 2017
- Connecticut Voices for Children
- Ray Noonan, Nicole Updegrove, and Daniel Long, Ph.D.
All children should have the opportunity to reach their full potential. At the same time, parents should be able to go to work with the comfort that their children are safe, nurtured, and learning. For many families, child care is a crucial component of this vision. Early care and education programs have proven to be […]
The State of Early Childhood 2015
- December 1, 2016
- Children’s Action Alliance
- Nicole Updegrove, Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Sarah Iverson, Jennifer Fredericks, and Daniel Long
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems of workforce development under WIOA. This process creates an unprecedented opportunity to build into each state’s plan concrete ideas for using state and local workforce […]