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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/24/2006
Kansans For Simple Justice, a nonpartisan coalition that includes the Kansas League of Women Voters, the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas Appleseed Foundation and others, led the effort to block the tampering. The coalition believes that returning to the politically manipulated system that existed before 1958 would be a disaster. They argued, in short, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/22/2006
Richardson has been active in several pro bono causes throughout his career. He made significant contributions to the study and report produced by DLA Piper and the D.C. Appleseed Foundation that aimed to reduce the number and costs of disputes between parents and special education students and the District of Columbia Public Schools, so that funds could be redirected to classroom services. For more than two years, on a pro bono basis, he worked to help a D.C, couple obtain guardianship of their three nieces, who had been abused by their mother.
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/15/2006
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Womenâs Commission is hosting an awards luncheon in recognition of the 30th anniversary of International Womenâs Day. Milo Mumgaard, executive director for the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest (Erasmus Correll Award);
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/13/2006
A lend-a-lawyer program unveiled by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation (TEAJF) in January will help legal aid programs provide those services to hurricane victims. A new fellow at Texas Appleseed will be responsible for coordinating the lend-a-lawyer program.
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/6/2006
Despite pleas from human services agencies and others not to burden the poor with late charges and other fees, the Lincoln City Council on Monday passed a rate package to help the Lincoln Electric System pay for more than $9 million in unexpected power costs
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/5/2006
People wonder if Nebraska welfare system is self-defeating
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/5/2006
When Nebraska's tax receipts declined at the beginning of the decade, families that relied on state help to pay for child care took a hit. Now that tax revenue has turned around, State Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lincoln is pushing a bill that would reverse the cuts in child care subsidies made through a budget veto in 2002. Other parents have turned down pay raises and promotions that would put them over the 120 percent mark, said Becky Gould of the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest.
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/5/2006
State Sen. John Synowiecki of Omaha has 760 arguments against a state policy capping benefits for families that have more children after going on welfare. That's the number of children who would be directly helped, he says, by his proposal to eliminate the state's 12-year-old "family cap" policy. Still, the possibility that economic pressure could encourage abortion was one reason, Synowiecki said, that he agreed to introduce the bill when the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest proposed it to him.
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/4/2006
A candlelit march kicked off an Omaha rally in which about 200 people were urged Thursday night to work for legal changes favorable to immigrants. "It's going to be a long haul," Gerschutz said at the event, which was co-sponsored by Nebraska Appleseed, a Lincolnbased group that focuses on public policy related to low-income self-sufficiency.
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By Communications Communications on
Published on: 2/3/2006
Governor Mark Sanford says change is on the way for those on Medicaid. But there are more questions about efforts to reform the program and cut state spending. Sue Berkowitz of the Appleseed Legal Center says, "By just making changes to the Medicaid program, that's not going to solve the other problems we have with 850,000 people who can't access affordable health care."
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