Category: News

The Closed Digital Door: State Public Benefits Agencies’ Failure to Make Websites Accessible to People with Disabilities and Usable for Everyone

State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…

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Economic Justice and Access to Health Care are LGBT Issues

The Summer 2010 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy contains an essay based on Laura’s Redman’s 2008 presentation describing the barriers low income LGBT individuals and families confront in seeking access to Medicaid and…

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State Agency Websites Are Often Inaccessible to People with Disabilities

State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…

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NCLEJ Board Elects Selendy, Curtis, and Barham to Leadership Positions

Jennifer Selendy, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis; Douglas F. Curtis, a partner at WilmerHale, and Cassandra Barham, a respected advocate from Ohio, have been chosen to serve as Chair and Vice-Chairs, respectively, of NCLEJ’s Board of Directors….

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NCLEJ Dinner on June 9th Honored Amy Schulman, Mark Greenberg, and Partners in Maryland Court Victory

Pfizer Senior Vice President and General Counsel Amy Schulman; HHS Administration for Children and Families Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Mark Greenberg; and the Homeless Persons Representation Project, Public Justice Center, and the law firm of Kirkland &…

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New Mexico Court Allows Agricultural Workers to Pursue Case Challenging Denial of Workers’ Compensation

In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…

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NCLEJ Report on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…

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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County NY For Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…

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NCLEJ Reports on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…

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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County for Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…

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