Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
Investigative ReporterJacqueline Rabe Thomas was an investigative reporter with ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø’s Accountability Project from July 2021 until August 2022.
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This comes just days after ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø’s Accountability Project reported that some home health aides were paying for meals they never received. -
The health care provider said it would pay staff at least $15 an hour. The Accountability Project has found that some home health aides were still making close to minimum wage long after these pay bumps should have begun. Workers were also being docked $17.50 a day for meals they were never offered. -
On Thursday at 8 p.m., ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø's CUTLINE show on CPTV will spotlight changes to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø’s juvenile justice system and the voices of teenagers. -
Gov. Lamont is spending 35% less each year than his predecessor to build affordable housing, and the panel that must give the nod for construction to move forward is meeting one-third as often. State records show that a growing amount of money earmarked for housing is going unspent. -
This is the second edition of our new Reporter's Notebook series which is a part of The Accountability Project's newsletter. You can sign up, here. -
A group of Trinity College students spent a semester taking the 87-page Sheff v. O'Neill agreement filled with hard-to-digest numbers and legal jargon and translating it into a few graphics to help the public understand how far the state is from the agreement's goal. -
ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø paid $106,000 to assess public school facilities through a no-bid contract arranged by Kosta Diamantis, who stopped running the state's school construction office amid an FBI investigation into his tenure. -
This is the second article in a two-part series: "Rent Paid, Still Evicted." Wednesday, we explored the uptick in no-fault evictions and the impact on renters. Today, we explore solutions. On Friday at 9 a.m. listen to CT Public's Where We Live as we dive into this topic further. -
Dozens more households faced eviction each week during the pandemic, despite paying rent. As no-fault evictions rose to half of all filings, here's how a hot housing market and eviction restrictions didn't help these two women and many others. -
Many requests for government records are left hanging in limbo for months, frustrating transparency advocates and citizens alike.
