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Making it permanent

Resources to help parents are typically aimed at moms, not dads.
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Resources to help parents are typically aimed at moms, not dads.

Advocates urge lawmakers to make the state’s child tax credit permanent. Long Island lawmakers re-introduce the SALT cap. Connecticut is short 80,000 affordable housing units. And government owned non-tactical vehicles are going electric.

Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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