"In coming years, Connecticut has a responsibility to help working families recover from this pandemic, and that will lead to increased costs for education, health care and child care…

"The state’s COVID-response fund, created with federal stimulus dollars — would allow us to invest in after-school programs, small businesses, the arts, and health disparities. We should use that fund to address the direct impacts of the pandemic…"

You can read the Speaker's entire op-ed here: