City Limits: New Yorkers See Uneven Improvement in Food Stamp, Cash Assistance Delays
NYLAG’s Deborah Berkman spoke to City Limits for this piece about how tens of thousands of New Yorkers have faced delays to their benefits applications, ...
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NYLAG’s LegalHealth Partners with Mount Sinai for a Clinic to Help Breast Cancer Patients in Need of Legal Services
NYLAG’s LegalHealth Division is partnering with the Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership to launch a clinic to help breast cancer patients navigate legal issues that ...
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Pix11: NYC Must Speed Up Food Stamp Application Processing Amid Backlog, Judge Rules
This Pix11 story covers a court order secured by NYLAG, Legal Aid Society, and Dechert LLP requiring the City to eliminate all SNAP and Cash ...
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Gothamist: DoorDash, Legal Group Set to Deliver Free Legal Clinics on Immigration to Workers
NYLAG’s Immigrant Protection Unit is partnering with DoorDash to offer free immigration legal clinics for its New York City delivery workers.
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New York Times: New Migrants Have a Year to Apply for Asylum. Many Won’t Make It.
NYLAG’s Jodi Ziesemer spoke to the New York Times about the long, confusing, and tedious application process required of migrants seeking asylum. Even for those ...
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EFLRP Submits Comments on Medicare and Medicaid Regulation Proposals
Rebecca Wallach, Director of NYLAG’s Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program (EFLRP), and Valerie Bogart, Of Counsel, recently submitted two sets of comments on proposed federal ...
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New York Focus: New York’s Chosen AI Keeps Users from Collecting Unemployment
NYLAG’s Ciara Farrell spoke with New York Focus about the difficulties New Yorkers are facing with ID.me, a facial recognition software used to process unemployment ...
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NY1: Long Lines and Hearing Delays Reflect a Broken Immigration System for Asylum Seekers
NYLAG’s Jodi Ziesemer spoke to NY1 about how asylum seekers are being impacted by delays and dysfunction in the immigration system, including unfair deportation orders ...
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City Limits: Vacant NYCHA Units Continue to Increase, With Transfers Complicated by PACT
NYLAG’s Anna Luft spoke to City Limits about the delays and denials public housing tenants face when they request to be transferred to another apartment ...
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Smash: Christian Ferreira Represented Latinos at the New York Legal Assistance Group Foundation Gala
Christian Ferreira, an actor, activist, and social media influencer is featured in this article from Smash after being selected to share his story at NYLAG’s ...
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