Connecticut Voices for Children

Among a group of preschool teachers who work on Barbour Street in North Hartford, in one of Connecticut's poorest neighborhoods, the annual federal tax refund is more about the basics than the extras. Melissa Howard used a tax refund to buy a new car...

Where were you this past weekend? Was that you on the ski slopes, out for some early spring conditions? What a year of snow, huh? I thought I saw you in that Saturday afternoon backup over by the mall. Don't care what they say; the stores were packed....

They may inhabit the same state, but Connecticut's richest and poorest families increasingly live in different communities, different economies and different worlds. The wage gap between the richest and poorest families increased more in Connecticut than...