NCLEJ, represented by Staff Attorneys Katie Deabler and Leah Lotto, was honored by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety & Health (NYCOSH) at its annual awards gala on May 4, 2017. NCLEJ was honored for the great…
Read More →NCLEJ is appalled by today’s House vote to pass the GOP replacement health care bill. The Republican Congress forced through a health care repeal bill that raises costs and cuts coverage against the will of their constituents. The…
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 →On April 24, 2017, NCLEJ, along with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Georgia Legal Services, and Alston & Bird, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three low-income Georgia residents with disabilities alleging that the Georgia SNAP (food…
Read More →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…
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 →Millions of Americans Will Lose Health Coverage The Republican House ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, will result in millions losing health care coverage and jeopardize the lives and health of the estimated 20 million people…
Read More →Congratulations to Ray Lopez, Interim Director of Programs and Director of Environmental Health Services at LSA Family Health Service, who was elected on March 3, 2017, to NCLEJ’s Board of Directors. As a pioneering community advocate for families…
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