NEW AT LEGAL SERVICES NYC

NEW YORK, June 10, 2021 -- This week, New York’s legislature and Governor Cuomo announced a historic deal to fix the state’s worst-in-the-nation unemployment insurance rules for part-time work that were disproportionately hurting low-and-moderate income workers, especially Black and Brown workers, and holding back New York’s economic recovery. Senator Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Al Stirpe championed this long overdue reform.

Legal Services NYC is excited to be an Official Charity Partner in the 2021 TCS New York City Marathon. Runners on Team LSNYC will raise funds to support LSNYC's efforts to provide critical legal services for thousands of New Yorkers living in poverty. The dedication of our NYC Marathon runners sends a powerful message: that our community will fight to ensure justice and fairness for everyone. 

 

To learn more about running with Team LSNYC, please contact Anna Meyer at ameyer@lsnyc.org. 

NEW YORK, NY - Today, the Healing-Centered Schools Working Group, a coalition of parents, students, educators, advocates, and mental health providers, joined Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams, City Council Member Kevin Riley, and others to announce a first-of-its-kind Task Force to ensure that NYC schools are implementing healing-centered, supportive strategies to address students’ Covid-19 related trauma and longstanding trauma created by racial and social inequities in NYC schools. The Task Force is pushing NYC schools away from punitive-based responses to trauma, including suspensions, police intervention, and adverse disciplinary measures, which have long inhibited students’ ability to learn and inflicted further social-emotional harm.