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The award is the result of an arbitration agreement confirming the inclusion of state troopers in pandemic pay given to state workers represented by the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition.
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The leaders of the Connecticut Appropriations Committee want to increase funding for nonprofit social service agencies that provide services to disabled and abused children, and people struggling with drug addiction.
Cathy Osten is the Senate co-chair of the Appropriations Committee. She said the coronavirus pandemic has shown that some of the people who work for the community-based agencies are so poorly paid that they themselves have to depend on state assistance programs.
“We criticize large commercial organizations that do this. But the state itself is requiring workers to receive food stamps to be successful. To receive heating assistance,” Osten said.