Richard Blumenthal: “These steps really represent profoundly significant progress toward eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse; would you…”

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

Long-term unemployment is devastating for someone’s financial security, future job opportunities, and overall wellbeing—and it can take a toll on our economy as well.

This disaster declaration is a strong step toward bringing federal aid to Connecticut following severe floods last month.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.