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9/18/20

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Sep 182020

 

• New Job Opening Posted
• Water insecurity causes psychological distress for Americans, study finds
• Momentum for Basic Income Builds as Pandemic Drags On
• NPR: About 1 In 5 Households In U.S. Cities Miss Needed Medical Care During Pandemic
• Senators Warren, Schumer Urge President Trump to Provide Broad Federal Student Debt Cancellation

9/17/20

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Sep 172020

 

• U.S. Court Records Would Be Free Under House Judiciary Bill
• The Influence of Personalized Knowledge at the Supreme Court: How (Some) Former Law Clerks Have the Inside Track
• Police and prosecutor misconduct contributed to over half of false-conviction cases, new study finds
• CBPP: SNAP Benefit Boost Would Get Needed Food Aid to the Poorest Participants, Who Have Been Left Out

9/16/20

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Sep 162020

 

• New York lawmakers call on Cuomo to release $4 billion in federal coronavirus funds
• TalkPoverty: 12 Million People Still Haven’t Received Unemployment Benefits
• Ask the author: The evasive virtues and Supreme Court confirmation hearings
• Uninsured Rate Rose in 2019; Income and Poverty Data Overtaken by Pandemic Recession

9/15/20

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Sep 152020

 

• SCOTUStalk heads to the ballot box: The Supreme Court and the 2020 election
• Court Rules Government Can End Humanitarian Protections For Some 300,000 Immigrants
• Medicaid Alerts & Other Protocols published by the NYC HRA Medical Insurance and Community Services Administration (MICSA) – Updated

9/14/20

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Sep 142020

 

• The Children in the Shadows: New York City’s Homeless Students
• CBPP: Previewing Next Week’s Census Bureau Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance
• In Public Comment on Dodd-Frank Mortgage Rule Update, Civil Rights and Housing Groups Support a Broad Price-Based QM Definition to Ensure Access for Consumers of Color and Borrower Protections, Including Fair Lending

9/11/20

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Sep 112020

 

• Public Notice: A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Interest on Lawyer Account (IOLA) Fund of the State of New York will be held on Wednesday September 23, 2020, beginning at 12:00 PM
• Courts Continue to Adapt to Covid-19
• Strained Rural Water Utilities Buckle Under Pandemic Pressure

9/10/20

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Sep 102020

 

• New Job Openings Posted
• Urban Institute Brief: Creating Places of Opportunity for All
• NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior
• SCOTUS Blog: Trump releases new list of potential Supreme Court nominees
• NYS Hospital Financial Assistance Law — Hospitals Must Provide Charity Care Assistance Program
• NYS Medicaid Cuts 2020-21 – PowerPoint on Implementation + NYLAG Submits Comments on How & When Lookback & Other Changes will be Implemented

9/9/20

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Sep 092020

 

• CBPP: Research Note: How the Pandemic Could Skew Official Poverty Figures for 2019
• CRL: The Trump Administration Guts Critical Anti-Discrimination Tool Used to Create Opportunity in Housing and Lending
• Civil Rights Groups Strongly Oppose HUD’s New “Fair Housing” Rule and Call on the Agency to Reinstate the 2015 AFFH Regulation