Feeling Safe Enough to Use Our Health Insurance
Seeking treatment for reproductive or mental health can be a very private matter. How that information is shared with others [...]
Reclaiming Our CROWN: Legislation to Protect Against Discrimination Based on Race-Based Hairstyles
The sad and infuriating truth is that even in 2021 we are still forced to debate whether the hair [...]
New Study Reveals Paid Family Leave Policies Lead to 20% Fewer Women Leaving the Workforce
As Connecticut prepares to launch new Paid Family & Medical Leave law, research highlights long-term economic benefit of paid family [...]
PoliticaCT Legislators Discuss Progressive Bills Passed in 2019
State Senator Julie Kushner discusses paid family and medical leave: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIHgHaZB8E State Representative Robin Comey talks about passing a [...]
PoliticaCT Announces – First Endorsements for 2018 Elections [Press Release]
PoliticaCT will announce its first endorsements in the November 2018 elections on Tuesday, May 29th at 4:30 PM on the [...]
The 2018 Session: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – An Insider’s View
PoliticaCT was active this legislative session. Members and board members alike worked to push for our policy priorities and influence [...]
Testimony in Support of a Fair Minimum Wage
On Thursday, March 8, The Labor and Public Employees Committee will hold a hearing on behalf of HB 5288, "An [...]
Being Fully and Fairly Represented in Our Democracy
by Jamie Mills, PoliticaCT co-founder In 1981 I was a staffer for first-term Congressman Sam Gejdenson in Washington D.C. One [...]
Our crowns are paid for. Let’s wear them.
Last weekend I was driving to see my mother. Like many millennials, I was listening to a podcast as I [...]
What happens when we include girls in the process of campaigns, elections and governing?
Kiera Elizabeth is what I like to call, my niece-in-friendship. Her mother and I became friends long before she was [...]