Connecticut’s richest residents got richer while poorest residents got poorer during pandemic, survey finds
Hartford Courant February 17, 2022
[Excerpt from front-page feature by Alex Putterman, February 13, 2022] The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly difficult for Connecticut residents in the state’s poorest cities, a large statewide survey has found. While 19% of Connecticut adults say they are worse off financially than they were two years ago, according to the survey, that number was 31% in Hartford, 29% in Bridgeport, 20% in New Haven and 28% in Waterbury.… Read More
Survey results quantify how each Connecticut town experienced the pandemic throughout 2021
by Mark Abraham February 12, 2022
PRESS RELEASE - February 13, 2022 Since February 2020, nearly a quarter of Connecticut households had a member lose a job, but about one-third of households in Bridgeport, Stamford, and Waterbury faced that outcome. But even in towns like Milford and Greenwich, about one in seven households were affected by job loss.… Read More
City Starts To Think About Broadband
New Haven Independent January 14, 2022
[Excerpt of news article by Thomas Breen, 1/14/2022] Should the city partner with an existing internet service provider to boost broadband? Or set up its own network and side-step telecom monopolies? Those questions are at the center of a revived city effort to at least think about how to bring faster and more reliable internet to all of New Haven. City economic development officials and city-hired consultants discussed that quest Thursday evening during an hourlong “community meeting” about high-speed internet access in New Haven. … Read More
Windham Hospital's maternity ward heads for closure, with safety and equity still at issue
CT Public Radio November 15, 2021
[Excerpt of news report by Nicole Leonard, CT Public Radio, 11/14/2021] A community hospital that’s been delivering babies for 88 years at its site in the Willimantic section of Windham is now seeking final approval from the state to end its obstetrics program. Windham Hospital leaders say labor and delivery at the facility has become unsafe due to a drop in birth volume and a lack of qualified obstetricians available to consistently staff the unit. But community activists argue a permanent closure will disproportionately hurt the town’s most vulnerable residents.… Read More
Selected October 2021 press coverage of DataHaven
by Mark Abraham October 28, 2021
DataHaven received significant statewide press coverage in October following the release of its Town Equity Reports and Summer 2021 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey results! Some representative examples include:… Read More
Update: The full 2021 dataset, based on over 9,000 interviews conducted through the end of 2021, is discussed in a February 2022 data release. PDF version of October 2021 press release, which was based on the initial 5,145 interviews conducted from June to August of 2021: … Read More
