The Emergency Broadband Benefit will provide a discount of up to $50 per month toward broadband service for eligible families and households who are struggling to stay connected during the COVID19 pandemic. Qualifying households on Tribal lands can receive a discount of … Read More …
New York’s unemployed are going back to work after record numbers of unemployed throughout the state in 2020. Two local organizations said people are still reporting problems navigating the world of unemployment. The organizations said people are still looking … Read More …
Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, today named its 2021 class of Equal Justice Works Fellows. Each of the 77 law school graduates, in collaboration with a legal services organization, has designed a … Read More …
Law Office of Milo Primeaux, Esq., has launched a LGBTQ+ NYS School Climate Survey! http://bit.ly/LGBTQstudentSurvey This tool will help us learn about how LGBTQ+ students across NYS have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey will … Read More …
Today, April 21, 2021, New York State Senators Sean Ryan, Neil Breslin, and Michelle Hinchey, and New York State Assemblymembers Patricia Fahy, John McDonald, and Phil Steck, announced that the state budget for FY 2021-2022 includes $3.5 million in funding … Read More …
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York stands for a just America. We join Americans across the nation in mourning the recent police murders of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Ma’khia Bryant, Andrew Brown Jr., and Mario Arenales Gonzalez. … Read More …
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York stands for a just America. We want our country to stop the attacks against all our neighbors, family and friends, including our clients. We mourn and condemn the recent and continuing acts of hate and murder … Read More …
Speaker Carl E. Heastie New York State Assembly Legislative Office Building, Room 932 Albany, NY 12248 Dear Speaker Heastie, We write to urge inclusion of the following budget request in New York’s final fiscal plan for FY 2021-22, … Read More …
At the City Mission of Schenectady, Executive Director Mike Saccocio has a saying: “Volunteers are not the icing on the cake, they are the cake.” So the state’s announcement that nonprofit workers and volunteers will now be eligible for … Read More …
“The economic impact is going to continue beyond people getting ill,” added Deanne Grimaldi, spokeswoman for the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY. Pandemic-battered New Yorkers owe $1.14 billion in unpaid gas and electric bills, suggesting that the statewide … Read More …
