Category: Fair Administration Highlights

NCLEJ Joins Michigan Medicaid Lawsuit on Behalf of Adults with Developmental Disabilities

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice announced today that it had joined with Legal Services of South Central Michigan, The Michigan Poverty Law Program, and Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. in filing a lawsuit in…

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Trump’s Budget: Savage Attack on Ordinary Folks in Favor of Tax Breaks for the Rich

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…

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NCLEJ Urges Federal Agencies to Update Their Standards for Collecting and Reporting Race and Ethnicity Data

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…

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Workers’ Compensation Board Fails Workers with Limited English Proficiency

The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) fails to adequately protect the rights of injured or ill workers to understand and participate in hearings to determine their benefits, finds a new report released today by NCLEJ and the Worker…

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Trump Budget Hurts Struggling Families and Communities

The President’s newly unveiled budget slashes funding for critical programs that serve low- and moderate-income people. It is an outrageous betrayal of the millions of regular Americans who have been struggling to make ends meet and have been…

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NCLEJ Opposes the Federal Government’s Efforts to Limit ACA Marketplace Coverage

NCLEJ takes action to protect health care for low-income and immigrant communities. We submitted comments opposing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed rule that would limit low-income families’ ability to obtain health coverage through the Affordable…

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NCLEJ and ACLU of Rhode Island Achieve Settlement in Challenge to Unlawful Delays of SNAP Benefits

NCLEJ and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island have reached a settlement with the Rhode Island Department of Human Services in a federal court lawsuit, filed in December 2016, challenging the Rhode Island agency’s widespread failure…

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Help Us Fight for Immigrants

Please see below the email we sent on February 21, 2017 on this important issue.  

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NCLEJ and Co-Counsel Challenge the Unconstitutional Revocation of Driver’s Licenses in Tennessee

NCLEJ, along with co-counsel Civil Rights Corps, Just City, and the law firm of Baker Donelson, has filed Thomas v. Haslam, a federal class action lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional revocation of driver’s licenses – without notice or opportunity…

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NCLEJ and ACLU of Rhode Island Lawsuit Challenges Unlawful Delays of SNAP Benefits

NCLEJ and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) have filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island over its widespread failure to process food stamp applications from the state’s neediest residents in…

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