Sebastian Medina-Tayac
Staff Reporter
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Plates still empty for SNAP recipients

Charities providing emergency food assistance across New Haven are beginning to feel the weight of recent cuts to the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly […]

Minimum wage reform: Workers call for higher wages

Amidst ambitious union efforts to raise fast food workers’ minimum wage, Connecticut workers and labor advocates are not satisfied with the relatively small raise they received from the state at the beginning of the year.

Fired workers speak out against GHeav wage theft

GHeav has come under scrutiny for firing four workers, allegedly in retaliation for cooperating with the DOL investigation of wage theft.

Activists fight proposed Green regulations

Proposed regulations would close the New Haven Green at 10 p.m. and prohibit people from sleeping there overnight.

Fast food workers rally

Striking fast-food workers joined activists, union members, clergy and elected officials to call for better wages and fair treatment.

Student with rifle shuts down UNH

Just over a week after Yale’s gun scare, the University of New Haven went on lockdown after reports that a man with a rifle was spotted across the street from campus.

Connecticut feels impact of food stamp cuts

One chilly afternoon in mid November, Kimberly Hart made her familiar walk to Mount Hope Food Pantry in Dixwell. At 5:15 p.m., she thought she […]

Gourmet Heaven workers speak out

A group of Gourmet Heaven employees spoke out Tuesday in an exclusive interview with the News.

Trans activists speak out against violence

Community activists gathered Wednesday afternoon by City Hall to commemorate International Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Rabbi finds $98,000 in old desk

"I still can’t figure out how you misplace that amount of money- Or why she had it bundled in $100 bills stuffed in an old crappy desk," wrote CT Boom blogger Anna Zap.

School breakfast program surges in state

More Connecticut students than ever before are eating the most important meal of the day.