Telemundo
NYLAG’s Employment Law Project’s Supervising Attorney, Anamaria Segura, and our Special Litigation unit’s paralegal, Janet Ceron sat down with Telemundo 47 to discuss their efforts that restored stolen wages to low-income Latina workers in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Watch the news coverage here.
Originally aired on Telemundo on September 22, 2020 (Spanish language)
With the Equal Protection of Law Amendment on New Yorkers’ ballots in November, Heather Betz, Director of NYLAG’s LGBTQ+ Law Unit, provided context for the amendment to CityLimits as it pertains to the LGBTQ community.
Federal law dictates that youth and young adults under 21 experiencing homelessness should be enrolled in school immediately but CityLimits spoke with various organizations working with recently arrived immigrant youth including NYLAG as they encounter obstacles to the school enrollment they’re entitled to.
Recent updates from Adams’ administration on reducing the backlog for SNAP and cash assistance do not tell the full story. Abby Biberman, Associate Director of NYLAG’s Public Benefit Unit, highlighted with CityLimits the struggles faced by those who are being denied benefits.
Despite the positive news from the Adams administration, Abby Biberman, an Associate Director for NYLAG’s Public Benefits unit, spoke to Gothamist about the ongoing issue of many SNAP and Cash Assistance applicants being denied.
NYLAG’s Special Litigation Unit (SLU) worked with several former students of ASA College, a now-defunct predatory for-profit school, to submit Borrower Defense loan discharge applications.
After NYLAG filed a FOIA lawsuit, SSA produced the contract it had entered into with Equifax, pricing tables, an addendum which outlined the specific standards for the Equifax payroll information exchange, and relevant data privacy and security guidelines for the development of such a system. On February 15, 2024, SSA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that sets forth a proposed rule for the use of this data matching process.
