Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group adds evening hours

By Kerensa Konesni September 29,2018 Just ahead of the holiday season, the Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group (TEEG) has announced it will change and expand hours at its food pantry to better assist working families in the towns of Thompson, Woodstock and Pomfret. “It’s something we had been toying with for a while, but weren’t completely …

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Middlesex United Way: 1 in 3 Connecticut residents can’t afford basic necessities

By Kevin Wilhelm September 14,2018\ More families in Connecticut are facing financial hardship, according to the 2018 ALICE Report released this month by Connecticut United Ways. The update to the original ALICE Report, which released in 2014, and again in 2016, reveals that more than 1 in 3 Connecticut residents are struggling to afford their …

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Middlesex United Way: 1 in 3 Connecticut residents can’t afford basic necessities

By Kevin Wilhelm September 14,2018 The updated 2018 Connecticut United Way’s ALICE Report documents the challenges facing ALICE families throughout our state, and identifies trends that affect ALICE’s ability to achieve financial security. In Middlesex County, there are 16,834 households who fall under the ALICE criteria, approximately 25 percent of all Middlesex County households. One …

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Paula Gilberto | President & CEO, United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut

By Sean Teehan September 10, 2018 What are the most pressing issues in Greater Hartford that could be helped by United Way? Too many households are struggling to make ends meet — unable to afford the basics such as food, housing, child care, health care and transportation. United Way coined the acronym ALICE to describe …

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Danbury households stugglings are made of those “employed, but constrained”

By Zach Murdock September 8, 2018 A new United Way report delivers a sobering statistic: Half of Danbury households struggle to pay for necessities like housing, child care and groceries. But those 15,400 households across the city are not the initial stereotype that first comes to many people’s minds, local officials warn. These are families …

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