[Excerpt from Hearst Connecticut Media Editorial Board masthead, June 19, 2020]
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Federal estimates show the unemployment rate, which skyrocketed at the start of the pandemic, will remain high at least through the end of the year. Thousands of people in Connecticut will remain in need of serious help to make ends meet, and that is not likely to change in the near term.
For immediate release -- June 18, 2020
For media: Download this media advisory and an Executive Summary as a PDF:
Kelly Davila, Mark Abraham, and Camille Seaberry, DataHaven
June 06, 2020
Connecticut Health Foundation, DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey Partners
Towards Health Equity in Connecticut: The Role of Social Inequality and the Impact of COVID-19, is a comprehensive new report that summarizes five broad social determinants of health and discusses how various groups of people are affected by their opportunities in each category.
Towards Health Equity in Connecticut: The Role of Social Inequality and the Impact of COVID-19, is a comprehensive new report that summarizes five broad social determinants of health and discusses how various groups of people are affected by their opportunities in each category. Each section begins with general comparisons of many groups across several indicators, and ends with an example of how those social circumstances relate to a specific health outcome.
[Excerpt from feature article by Thomas Breen, New Haven Independent, June 5, 2020]
Local and statewide tenant organizers are turning to a simple, if profound, solution for staving off a pending eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness crisis.
Their rallying cry? “Cancel the rent.”
Organizers with the Cancel Rent CT movement appeared Thursday on\ WNHH Radio’s “Pandemic Organizing” to talk about the urgent need they see for not just deferring, but outright forgiving renters’ debts for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.
Link:
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/cancel_rent/
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Cities also reporting a greater share of deaths outside of nursing homes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 20, 2020
A new analysis by DataHaven suggests that COVID-19 continues to affect the state in disproportionate ways.
Growth in new cases has slowed statewide, but the change of pace has been uneven from town to town.
[Excerpt from feature article by Peggy McCarthy, C-HIT]
Beyond the gleaming office towers overlooking I-95 in Stamford and the pleasure boats that frequent the city’s marinas, thousands of city residents are struggling with hunger, a situation worsened by the pandemic.
Link:
https://www.wnpr.org/post/food-safety-nets-are-straining-under-economic-meltdown
A few examples of coverage from our April 23, 2020 press release, DataHaven estimates that social distancing to counter the spread of COVID-19 has already saved 10,000 lives in Connecticut:
WFSB News Channel 3 Evening News, "Study says 10,000 lives saved so far in CT because of social distancing, by Shawnte Passmore and Carolina Cruz
