The President’s just released budget proposes cruel cuts to all basic safety net programs that help struggling families and individuals. This budget – with more details than the “skinny budget” released two months ago – is an outrageous…
Read More →NCLEJ submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget supporting the revision of their standards for data collection on race and ethnicity. These standards affect everything from the Census to health care data collection. We contend that…
Read More →Please see below the email we sent on February 21, 2017 on this important issue.
Read More →By Marc Cohan, Executive Director, National Center for Law and Economic Justice Twenty years ago then President Clinton signed the so-called “welfare reform” law. The legislation was a comprehensive and far-reaching effort to eliminate welfare as this nation…
Read More →It has been 20 years this month since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, was enacted. Marking this anniversary, NCLEJ Executive Director Marc Cohan…
Read More →NCLEJ Senior Attorney Laura Redman’s article “Perspectives from Europe: Balancing Same-Sex and Religious Rights” was published September 8, 2014 in the New York Law Journal. From the article: “[T]he [cases] stand for the principle that religious belief alone…
Read More →The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) will address mold and excessive moisture in its apartments more quickly and thoroughly as a result of an agreement approved by the court in, Baez v. NYCHA, filed by NCLEJ and…
Read More →In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…
Read More →In the latest issue of the Clearinghouse Review focused on racial justice, NCLEJ’s Gina Mannix and Henry Freedman discuss recent social science research showing how subtle race-based factors and stereotypes continue to infect policy and administration in TANF,…
Read More →NCLEJ attorneys Gina Mannix and Cary LaCheen have submitted extensive comments on proposed HHS regulations governing the health insurance exchanges to be created under the Affordable Care Act. The comments’ recommendations are drawn from our experience with public…
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