SNAP, also known as food stamps, is an essential program that prevents tens of millions of Americans from experiencing dire hunger each year. SNAP serves a broad swath of the population, including families and single adults, the employed…
Read More →NCLEJ joins with its allies and millions of Americans in celebrating the defeat of the latest Republican effort to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and leave millions of Americans without access to health care. The Senate’s rejection…
Read More →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 →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…
Read More →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…
Read More →NCLEJ, along with co-counsel New Economy Project (NEP) and Ahmad Keshavarz, filed a brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression that addresses the need to protect Social Security benefits from unlawful…
Read More →In a case that will have a big impact on low-income New York parents, NCLEJ filed an amicus brief with the New York State Court of Appeals in Lattuca v. Lattuca. The case addresses the issue of whether…
Read More →On August 19, 2016 the Empire Justice Center, with NCLEJ as co-counsel, filed a federal class action lawsuit to challenge New York’s termination of SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, to thousands of New Yorkers. The benefits…
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 →Low-income New Hampshire families with a child with a disability won a major victory on August 2, 2016, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down a rule requiring that the child’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits…
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