CT state Senator & executive director of Emerge CT
Connecticut, USA
Joined February 2014
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And number 1 when it counted the most! #bleedblue #UConnNation
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Matthew Desmond studied why families struggled to stay housed & he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, By America he says it’s bc the rest of us benefit from it and act to keep it that way
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via @nytopinion “Put another way, credit card rewards are essentially a tax on less affluent consumers, who are much more likely to pay for their goods with cash, debit cards or standard credit products that accrue no such rewards.” nytimes.com/2023/03/04/opini…
via @NYTimes The magnitude 7.8 quake and its aftershocks have unleashed a humanitarian disaster of unfathomable proportions. nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world…
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“found poor&working-class people 2 be deeply altruisticThey know what it is 2 work sick,be dependent on a car u can’t afford to fix&need help from family,friends,sometimes strangersSuch experiences lead 2 empathy&like all people,they want 2B part of something bigger w/ a purpose”
“I first sold plasma in 2009 after years of avoiding it,” writes @VanessaVeselka. “It was a temporary solution to a continuous state of financial instability.” nyti.ms/3qt9CpL
So proud to mark my 1st Labor Day as an @EmergeUnited union member! So glad to have worked with my colleagues to make this happen and make us all stronger. Biggest thanks to all the workers who came before us and made our union possible #UnionStrong #LaborDay2022 @SEIU_Tennessee
This Labor Day, we're proud to stand by workers across the country who are looking to make their workplaces better by organizing together. #LaborDay #UnionStrong
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Certainly it colored the way Sydney Zicolella sees Killingly. She brightened a little when she considered the future, when, as she put it, “teens my age turn into adults, and go into places of power in politics.”
“Things are going to look a lot different,” she said.
For months, a blue-collar town in Connecticut has been locked in dispute over whether to put a mental health clinic in its high school, and opinions about teen suicide, psychology & the role of the state have spilled out into the open. Here's my story:
nytimes.com/2022/06/05/healt…
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Via @nytimes “Let’s at least be clear about what that means. It means that we value the comfort and self-regard of men, especially famous ones, more than we value the safety and dignity of women, even famous ones.” nytimes.com/2022/06/02/arts/…
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“There are plenty of people who are under-protected. So we’re setting pandemic policies based on people with resources as the benchmark. It might make sense to set policy based on the most vulnerable in Connecticut.”
Some who are immunocompromised or who care for an at-risk loved one are at higher risk now as COVID restrictions begin to fall away. ctmirror.org/2022/05/15/as-c…
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Now that Moderna has submitted all pediatric data to @US_FDA, we urge an immediate, transparent and thorough review. Families of children under 5 have waited a long time for the reassurance of a safe and effective vaccine.
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“There’s a lot of shame around having to live on a budget or having to put food back at a grocery store, and I’m not ashamed,” Porter said. “I’m doing the very best I can to make the choices financially for my family.”
NEW: After Rep. Katie Porter gave emotional speech to fellow Dems about skyrocketing grocery bills, she said it felt like the first time it sank in with some colleagues
One told her it's not coming up in polls. Her response: “You don’t know what to ask”
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via @NYTOpinion “When you’re struggling, there’s no luxury quite like being able to worry a little bit less about money. “ nytimes.com/2022/04/17/opini…
People…felt whipsawed as Dem mayors and gov’s who once championed safety measures as a public good and emblem of civic virtue now seemed ready to turn the page on a pandemic that, while easing, is still killing more than 1K people every day across the U.S nytimes.com/2022/03/12/us/co…
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Who could blame parents for feeling bewildered?
“The part that’s confusing is…there’s no longer any clear, right answer,” Anne Gonzalez 41 y.o. mom of 2 who manages… “I’ve come to the point that all I can do is what I think is right for my family.” nytimes.com/2022/03/10/healt…
The Burden of COVID Is Shifting to the Global South - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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“I hate that the most hopeful moment of my life, the birth of my son, happened simultaneously to my utter loss of faith in humanity and government’s role in improving people’s lives, which, for many years, helped define who I am.” @meredithshiner Thank you for writing this essay
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