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12/6/13

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Dec 062013

 

• HRA Materials Updated
• Student Debt Up in 2012
• Justice Begins at Home: Extending FLSA Protections to Home Care Workers
• Forbes: The Inequality Boom Has Put 100 Million Americans Below the Poverty Line

12/5/13

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Dec 052013

 

• Consumer Supporter? Not so much
• Food Stamp Cuts, Holidays Stress Food Banks
• Court Orders For-Profit College To Pay $1,000/Day For Sidestepping Subpoena
• CBPP: Congress Should Renew Emergency Unemployment Compensation Before the End of the Year

12/4/13

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Dec 042013

 

• IOLA Meeting – December 11, 2013
• CFPB to Supervise Largest Student Loan Servicers
• NY Times: Bar Exam Passed, Immigrant Still Can’t Practice Law

12/3/13

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Dec 032013

 

• Anti-hunger plan delivered to state leaders
• Pro Bono Legal Services by Registered In-House Counsel
• CBPP: SNAP Costs Leveling Off, Almost Certain to Fall Next Year
• New York Subpoenas Websites in an Effort to Curb Payday Lenders

12/2/13

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Dec 022013

 

• HRA Materials Updated
• CFPB Requests Processing Information from Student Loan Servicers
• Nearly 400,000 Poor Americans Flock To Expanded Medicaid
• NY Times: Life on $7.25 an Hour – Older Workers Are Increasingly Entering Fast-Food Industry

11/29/13

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Nov 292013

 

• Court tosses out homeless shelter rules
• One in eight Brooklyn residents are food insecure
• Los Angeles Considers Ban on Publicly Feeding Homeless People
• West Virginia Supreme Court insists upon meaningful consent to arbitration agreement
• CLASP: Jobless Workers and Their Families Face a Bleak Holiday Season with Federal Unemployment Benefits Set to Expire

11/27/13

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Nov 272013

 

• Fighting Back Against Foreclosure-Rescue Scam Artists
• Principal reductions perform better than rate decreases
• White House report says GOP food stamp cuts will hurt the poor
• CBPP: Homelessness Remains High and Affordable Housing Is Increasingly Scarce
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Payday Lender For Robo-Signing

11/26/13

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Nov 262013

 

• Cuomo restores $4.5 million to New York food assistance program
• City Bar Urges Temporary Protected Status for Philippines
• CBPP: Hardship in America, 2013 – Unemployment Benefits for Long-Term Jobless Set to Expire