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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont rolled out a plan to invest $150 million in small businesses today. Connecticut nursing home workers are planning to strike, New York’s attorney general shades the Nassau County police department, and prison reform advocates want the state to do more for those who’ve been released.
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The program is called
Connecticut College Corps and the hope is that it will benefit K-12 students with much-needed social interaction and help bring disengaged students back to an in-person learning environment.
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All undergrad students who attend Connecticut Colleges and Universities, and also Connecticut undergrads who attend out of state schools are eligible to participate. If you re among the 500 chosen to teach, you will receive one week of specialized training prior to being matched to a Summer Enrichment Program, which will then be held all across the state.
According to the overview of the program, it will run for 7 weeks during this summer and all Corp members who complete the program will receive a healthy stipend of $4,500.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont rolled out a plan to invest $150 million in small businesses on Monday. Lamont visited a business incubator in a renovated factory building in Hartford to highlight the initiative.
The Swift Factory in the North End of Hartford once produced gold leaf used to decorate buildings, like the dome of the state Capitol. Now, it’s revitalizing the neighborhood business community.
Lamont said the state’s $150 million initiative, called the Connecticut Fund, would be focused on startups in areas like the North End that were hit hard by the pandemic.
“Now we are starting dreams, starting up businesses and they are going to be right here in this community. And that’s going to rebuild this community. That’s what this future fund, what this equity fund, is all about,” Lamont said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to authorize distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to 12 to 15-year-olds during the week of May 10.
The vaccine was previously approved for those 16 and older; however, recent clinical trials showed the efficacy in 12 to 15-year-olds was similar to that in adults.
“Pfizer reported several weeks ago that none of the adolescents in the clinical trial who received the vaccine developed symptomatic infections, a sign of significant protection,” the New York Times wrote in an article regarding the pending FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15 year-olds. “The company said that volunteers produced strong antibody responses and experienced about the same side effects seen in people ages 16 to 25.”
New York Takes Biggest Step Towards Fully Reopening From COVID
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On Monday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced what they describe as significant easing of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
The restriction rollbacks are due to significant progress in vaccinations and sustained reduction in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, officials say. The tide is turning against COVID-19 in New York, and we re able to take more steps to reopen our economy, help businesses and workers, and keep moving towards returning to normal, Governor Cuomo said. Thanks to the hard work of New Yorkers and our partners in government, we are now able to increase capacity limits for businesses, event venues and residences to reflect what we re seeing in the COVID data.