WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (TNSpp) -- Business Roundtable issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2023: Last week, Business Roundtable, Stanley Black & Decker, Accenture and the Connecticut Governor's Workforce Council launched the Connecticut Workforce Partnership Initiative (WPI) program. The initiative will prepare an additional 1,500 Connecticut residents to secure high-tech jobs by December 2025 through programs at Connecticut institutions of higher education, among other goals. During the  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 24 (TNSpp) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, posted the following news release: A team of doctors with frontline experience have joined forces to train Ukrainian medics on how to treat children who have been injured by explosive weapons as the war reaches the one-year mark with nearly 1,500 child casualties. Doctors with international expertise, trained in co  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 22 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2023: Another series of earthquakes in southern Turkiye and Syria has retriggered acute trauma in children with reports of people so scared they were jumping off balconies to escape buildings. Alexandra Saieh, Save the Children's Head of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy, curren  more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, Feb. 22 (TNStalk) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following statement on Feb. 22, 2023: * * * After the recent announcement of a proposed rule by the Biden administration that would block asylum for a vast majority of children and families seeking safety and security in the U.S., Janti Soeripto, President and CEO of Save the Children, issued the follow  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 22 (TNSper) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2023: Save the Children, the leading independent child rights organization, announced today the election of five new members to its accomplished Board of Trustees. "The global community has reached a crucial moment in its efforts to deliver on the promise of a better f  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 21 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release on Feb. 20, 2023: Children in Ukraine have been forced to hide underground for an average of about 920 hours in the last year--equivalent to 38.3 days or more than a month--since the conflict in Ukraine escalated, Save the Children said today. Sources that aggregate official data to calcul  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 23 (TNSpp) -- Save the Sound issued the following news release: Save the Sound has filed a petition on its own behalf to intervene in the Superior Court case of Murphy Road Recycling, LLC and Airline Avenue Realty, LLC v. New Haven City Plan Commission over environmental concerns at a Wheeler Street solid waste transfer station in the Annex neighborhood of New Haven. Save the Sound, along with other community members--including Alder Sarah Miller, Urban Resources In  more