Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Legal Aid Attorney Jessica Webster describes the 2023 child tax credit as a “powerful anti-poverty tool” and calls the 2024 proposal, “smart and equitable tax policy.”
Attorney Ron Elwood highlighted the problems tenants face when landlords co-opt the role of utility companies. View testimony via link, included in this Sessions Daily write-up.
Read Legal Aid’s statement, in support of the county attorney’s updated U/T visa policy. It encourages noncitizen victims of crime to step forward and outlines a pathway to legal status.
In a Leap Day race to beat the clock, Legal Aid’s Project Care navigators tackled the cases of clients whose pending coverage was due to expire at midnight, March 1. Thanks to their tenacity, by the day’s end, eight households (24 people, including 10 children) had secured health coverage for the next 12 months.
Following a 70-25 vote by eligible staff in favor of unionizing, MMLA issued a statement which reads in part, “We look forward to working together, all of us, leadership, union members and staff.”
The “Food is Medicine” bill aims to restore SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits (previously known as “food stamps”) to Minnesota’s 6K adults who lost them Jan. 1.
KARE 11’s coverage of the Solutions Not Suspensions news conference included Legal Aid’s statement on prone restraints.
Read Legal Aid’s statement, supporting the 2023 legislative ban on prone restraints in schools. “The risk in using them on children is too great to ignore.”
First day of the legislative session, Legal Aid Attorney Jessica Webster testifies on HF 3489, asking the House Education committee to keep the school ban on prone restraints.
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