Category: Meeting Basic Needs Highlights

Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Individuals’ Ability to Enforce Essential Rights

Decision Could Impact Millions of Children’s Access to Food, Healthcare  Contacts: Willis Jacobson, National Center for Youth Law: wjacobson@youthlaw.org Saima Akhtar, National Center for Law and Economic Justice: akhtar@nclej.org Selina Weiss, Youth Law Center: sweiss@ylc.org Constance Van Kley, Upper Seven Law (counsel…

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Designed to Exclude: New York’s Failure to Provide Compensation and Language Access to Unemployed Workers

Designed to Exclude: New York’s Failure to Provide Compensation and Language Access to Unemployed Workers is a report by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice which details the New York State Department of Labor’s (NYSDOL) failure…

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Extreme Language Barriers Prevent Workers from Getting Unemployment Insurance in the Pandemic 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Zavé Martohardjono | martohardjono@nclej.org  Today the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) released “Designed to Exclude: New York’s Failure to Provide Compensation and Language Access to Unemployed Workers”. This report documents the…

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Barreras Lingüísticas Impiden A Trabajadores Obtener El Seguro De Desempleo Durante La Pandemia

Los desastrosos errores de Nueva York que le costaron el acceso a beneficios de desempleo durante la pandemia a trabajadores de habla hispana Contacto: Zavé Martohardjono | martohardjono@nclej.org El National Law Center for Economic Justice organizará una conferencia…

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Twenty-two States Are Trying to Deny Free School Lunch to LGBTQ Students 

By Saima Akhtar, Senior Attorney, and Katharine Deabler, Staff Attorney The tide is rising high this year of far-right attacks on LGBTQ youth. And the multi-pronged strategies to win a right to discriminate against young LGBTQ people are…

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Missouri judge denies state’s request to dismiss federal SNAP lawsuit

The following excerpts were reprinted from Missouri Independent. Read the the full article. This article was also reposted in Fulton Sun. Mary Holmes says she subsisted on hardly any food for over a month as she struggled to…

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Missouri Case Moves Forward to Secure Access to SNAP Food Benefits

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Zavé Martohardjono | martohardjono@nclej.org  For years, Missourians have faced problems and been wrongfully rejected when applying for SNAP benefits because of difficulties navigating the state’s Department of Social Services’ application process. Missourians—especially people with…

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High Court Scraps Medicaid Work Requirement Fight

This excerpt was reprinted from Law360. Read the full article. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to scrap a case over whether states can impose work requirements in Medicaid programs, vacating D.C. Circuit decisions in the process. In…

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New Data Reveals Thousands of New Yorkers At Risk of Water Shutoffs

New data released today reveals that thousands of New York households risk having their water turned off. With our partner Western New York Law Center, we found that thousands of New Yorkers are struggling to pay their water bills,…

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Kentucky kept collecting UK medical debt after acknowledging due process violations

This excerpt is reprinted from The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. “Tip Moody trusted the University of Kentucky. He worked there, and since 2001 he had visited UK’s Albert B Chandler hospital every three months for HIV treatment….

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