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 →In response to Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, NCLEJ’s Theresa Lau, NAPABA Law Foundation Partners and In-House Counsel Community Law Fellow, has organized a free legal clinic to help DACA…
Read More →Last week, attorneys from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), Civil Rights Corps, Just City, and the law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, filed a federal class action lawsuit, Robinson, et al. v….
Read More →NCLEJ joined 27 other organizations on an amicus brief supporting Philadelphia’s prior wage legislation. The ordinance, which prohibits reliance on and inquiry about a job candidate’s prior wage to determine his or her salary, is an important step…
Read More →NCLEJ is outraged and dismayed by Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy today. This very important program provided DREAMers, young people who were brought to this country as children, with work…
Read More →NCLEJ files suit with the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and Hogan Lovells against the DC Department of Human Services (DHS) for its failure to process and provide timely Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits…
Read More →NCLEJ signed on to an amicus brief in Stinnie v. Holcomb, a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s statute automatically suspending the driver’s licenses of hundreds of thousands of Virginia drivers who cannot afford to pay…
Read More →NCLEJ is outraged and disappointed by both this past weekend’s horrific events in Charlottesville and Donald Trump’s repeated refusal to place fault where it belongs—with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His refusal to reject his white supremacist supporters only…
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…
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