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With baby formula increasingly hard to find on store shelves, concerns are growing for Black and Hispanic parents and low-income families who have less access to the products — and in some cases, greater need — than their white counterparts.

Even as COVID-19 case rates balloon in Connecticut and elsewhere, restrictions designed to curb the spread of the virus are more relaxed than ever.

For the third year in a row, an effort to ban flavored vaping products in Connecticut couldn’t muster enough support.

Children 12 years old and younger whose guardians meet the qualifying income limit will be eligible for Medicaid coverage regardless of their immigration status beginning Jan 1.

Lawmakers called the youth mental health crisis the “defining issue” of the legislative session.

SB 1 would bolster mental health programs in schools, increase wages for child care workers and create a minority teacher scholarship fund, among other priorities, passed the Senate with a vote of 33 to 2.

The Connecticut House of Representatives unanimously passed one of three major pieces of legislation that would improve access to mental health services for children, teens and young adults, with several members saying the proposal would save lives.

The state’s health insurance exchange is opening a special enrollment period for low-income families that will run for the rest of the calendar year.

Three ambitious bills that aim to tackle the growing crisis of children’s mental health in Connecticut would devote tens of millions in funding to a broad range of initiatives, including a grant program to attract and retain child psychiatrists, expanded mobile crisis services and additional staff across multiple state departments to manage new projects.