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Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

At a time when the majority of Americans use online banking, and some even deposit checks using their cellphone cameras, roughly eight percent of America's 115 million households don’t have a checking or savings account, according to census data compiled by the FDIC.

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The Impact of the Sequester on WIC Will WIC Be Able to Serve All Eligible Low-Income Women and Young Children Who Apply?

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

WIC — the highly effective nutrition program that serves roughly 9 million low-income women and children — has been battered by funding uncertainty for the last six months as Congress grappled with how to accomplish deficit reduction over the coming decade.

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Seniors Surf Past Computer-Phobia

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

Computer literacy course with other over-55 New Haveners Whalley Avenue offices of the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAA).

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President Obama’s FY 2014 Budget Request for CSBG and WAP

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

President Obama released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget request today, nearly two months later than normal

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Head Start Can Help Children and Parents Learn to Save

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

Head Start is an ideal vehicle for teaching parents and their children how to save money, accumulate assets, and set themselves on a more prosperous economic path.

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'Missing In Action': Congress Ignores America's Poverty Crisis

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

At a time when Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing outrage over canceled White House tours, something more deserving of outrage is taking place: tens of millions of the nation's most vulnerable are taking hits on all sides.

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Legislature's budget matches Malloy's bottom line, reverses him on details

CAFCA | April 28, 2013 |

The state legislature's budget-writing panel maintained a massive cut to hospitals but reversed a controversial reduction to health care for poor working parents in a $43.9 billion, two-year budget that effectively matched the spending level sought by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

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DeLauro visits Valley seniors to weigh effects of meals cuts

CAFCA | April 22, 2013 |

Possible cuts to the federally funded Meals on Wheels program administered by TEAM Inc. brought U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-3, to the Valley Monday.

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Report Finds 45% Jump In Poverty

CAFCA | January 27, 2013 |

Poverty has grown 45 percent over the last two decades with increases in 131 of the 169 Connecticut cities and towns, according to a new report released Friday.

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The Stimulus’s Hidden Success

CAFCA | January 27, 2013 |

Three years after passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the success of the stimulus initiative is still being debated.

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