Social safety net supports many Connecticut construction workers, report says
Annually, $229 million in state and federal funding supports the 20,000 construction-worker families enrolled in those programs in Connecticut.
Source: courant.com
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Annually, $229 million in state and federal funding supports the 20,000 construction-worker families enrolled in those programs in Connecticut.
Many construction jobs in Connecticut don’t pay enough to support a family, according to new research from the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
39% of Connecticut’s construction workers have a family member enrolled in at least one of the five largest social safety-net programs.