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By Chris Powell News reports say the General Assembly’s Finance Committee has approved legislation “designed to eradicate concentrated poverty” — that is, the poverty of U.S. census districts in Connecticut where 30% or more of the households have incomes below the federal poverty level. But the legislation, whose leading advocate is state Sen. John Fonfara,Continue reading “Dodging poverty problem again; and no wonder kids skip school”