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Mark Pazniokas
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                        As SNAP recipients are set to lose their food benefits on Saturday, U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes reflected on how she benefited from the program. "When my kids were little, I was on SNAP. I was on food stamps,” she said. “It was the difference between me putting my kids to bed hungry, and not."
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                        ϳԹ’s first steps to mitigate the fast-approaching suspension of a federally funded food assistance program will be a $3 million emergency grant to nonprofit ϳԹ Foodshare and an outreach campaign informing recipients of their nearest food pantry.
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                        ϳԹ’s minimum wage is among the highest in the U.S., behind Washington, California and most of New York.
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                        The timing and reach of a social media post accusing a ϳԹ state lawmaker of impeding federal immigration agents are drawing the FBI, state police and Capitol police to assess the threat posed by the resulting deluge of abuse.
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                        State Sen. Ryan Fazio of Greenwich opened a campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination with a dig at ϳԹ’s popular Democratic governor and a pledge to lower state income taxes, cap local property taxes and reduce electric rates.
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                        John Larson, first elected to Congress in 1998, said he declined to reconsider seeking a term that would keep him in Congress beyond his 80th birthday.
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                        Most, but not all, of the GOP messaging comes in the name and voice of Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, who unexpectedly emerged as the Republican leader in February 2024.
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                        Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas has apologized for making a reference to Nazi Germany’s SS in denouncing President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on ballot access to a bipartisan audience of registrars of voters.
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                        Forty-four ϳԹ companies already are working on the Artemis program, the ambitious successor to the Apollo program that landed 12 Americans on the moon in six missions, beginning with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969.
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                        Anticipating President Donald J. Trump’s latest and broadest round of tariffs, Gov. Ned Lamont complained Wednesday they will add to the $5 billion in additional costs on ϳԹ businesses from previous Trump tariffs and make the state’s exports less competitive.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
