Western New York Law Center

2/27/15

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Feb 272015

 

• FCC approves net neutrality
• Needed Protections for Retirement Savings Coming
• City Bar Supports Judiciary’s 2015-2016 Budget Request
• Growing Incarceration Contributed Little to Drop in Crime, Study Finds
• Understanding the Rates, Causes, and Costs of Churning in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

2/26/15

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Feb 262015

 

• HRA Materials Updated
• New Job Openings Posted
• Empty Judgements: The Wage Collection Crisis in New York
• Nonlawyer Courtroom Navigator Follow-Up – Initial NY Report shows Value and Impact
• Testimony of Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on SNAP Before House Agriculture Committee

2/25/15

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Feb 252015

 

• U.S.: It has no fix if Court nullifies health care subsidies
• Disability Insurance: An Essential Part of Social Security
• CNN Money: The secret world of government debt collection
• States Strive to Keep Medicaid Patients Out of the Emergency Department
• Current, Former Corinthian College Students Go On “Debt Strike,” Refuse To Pay Private & Federal Loans

2/24/15

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Feb 242015

 

• New Job Openings Posted
• Medicare Savings Programs (MSP) in New York
• CFPB: Consumer voices on credit reports and scores
• Hunger Rates Increasing Among African Americans
• Medicaid Alerts & Other Protocols published by the NYC HRA Medical Insurance and Community Services Administration (MICSA)

2/23/15

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Feb 232015

 

• SCOTUS Blog: Monday round-up
• Only $40 to make your Wi-Fi stronger
• Steps Forward in Nonlawyer Innovations in New York CJ’s Speech
• Equifax Report Gives Incomplete Picture of Troubling Subprime Auto Lending Practices
• Health Care Spending by Those Becoming Uninsured if the Supreme Court Finds for the Plaintiff in King v. Burwell Would Fall by at Least 35 Percent

2/20/15

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Feb 202015

 

• Housing Finance At A Glance: A Monthly Chartbook
• CBPP: Sequestration and Its Impact on Non-Defense Appropriations
• The racial wealth gap we hardly talk about: What happens in retirement
• Empire Justice Memo of Support: Improving Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement Conferences
• ‘Barely Enough to Survive’: Exposing (and Closing) the Race and Gender Gaps in Elder Poverty
• Medicaid & MSP: Must apply for Social Security and Other Potentially Available Income – and Medicare

2/19/15

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Feb 192015

 

• How bail punishes the poor for their poverty
• CNN Money: The debt collector that runs Texas
• Where New York’s Budget Windfall Comes Up Short
• Analysis: CRL Finds AFCC Debt Settlement Report Falls Short
• U.S. Sued for Seizure of Tax Refunds to Settle Old Social Security Overpayments

2/18/15

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Feb 182015

 

• Managed Long Term Care
• Aid to Needy Often Excludes the Poorest in America
• The 25-cent raise: What life is like after a minimum wage increase
• The country’s last black-owned banks are in a fight for their survival
• Helping Families Involved in the Child Welfare System Achieve Housing Stability