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12/16/24: LSNJ Urges New Jersey Lawmakers to Stand Tall in Backing a New Federal Rule Against Excessive Bank Overdraft Fees

12/09/24: Amid This Winter’s Chill, Lower Heating and Utility Costs Again Available for Low-Income New Jerseyans

11/20/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Spearheads Name Change Clinic for Transgender and Non-binary Individuals

11/13/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Preparing for the Next Natural Disaster

10/17/24: Immigrant Advocates Request Immediate Rejection of a Federal Policy Limiting Options of Immigrants to Defend Themselves in New Jersey Courts

10/16/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Domestic Violence and Protections for Victims

09/16/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Pinpoints Common Misconceptions About the Rights of Some Employees

08/09/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Key Enrollment and Related Rights for Students and Parents in the New School Year

06/14/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses On The Rights of Workers and Tenants in the State

05/17/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on the Rights of a Parent Facing Bench Warrants for Child Support Failures

05/07/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Calls for Ending Blanket Ban on People With Past Criminal Records Forever From Being Jurors

03/18/24: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Emergency Assistance Services and Expungement Reforms

02/14/24: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on 2023 Federal Income Tax Returns

12/12/23: Key Nutritional Aid Services Available for Low-Income New Jerseyans

09/14/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Key Rights and Responsibilities of Tenants Before Eviction Trials

08/01/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Key Rights of Students and Parents in the New School Year

06/09/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Safeguards for the State’s LGBTQ+ Community

05/10/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Available Contraceptive Services

04/11/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Tenant Confidentiality in Covid-Era Eviction Matters

03/13/23: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Process of Redetermining Eligibility for Most Medicaid Recipients

01/20/23: Workers May Qualify for Substantial Federal Tax Credit

12/13/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Child Health Insurance and Food Stamps

11/07/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Marketplace Health Policies and the New Property Tax Benefit

10/04/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Domestic Violence and Related Issues

09/15/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Key Rights of Students and Parents in the New School Year

05/04/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Changes Helping Special Education Students Impacted by COVID-19

04/25/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Changes Easing the Transition of Ex Offenders

04/01/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Emergency Assistance for the Homeless

03/09/22: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Laws Helping People Overcome Past Criminal Records

02/09/22: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on 2021 Federal Income Tax Returns and Help for Human Trafficking Victims

12/07/21: As the Winter Chill Sets In, There’s a New Benefit to Warm the Hearts of Low-Income Residents: Lower Heating and Utility Costs

10/25/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Offering Special Hotline Help for Residents Facing Losses From Hurricane Ida’s Devastation

10/08/21: Legal Services to Hold Memorial Service Honoring Its Past President, Melville D. Miller, Jr.

09/02/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Rights of Tenants Facing Eviction, Obligatory Settlement Conferences

07/06/21: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Expiditing Marijuana Expungements and School Enrollment Protections for Students

05/28/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on How Human Traffickers Use Drugs to Recruit People

05/06/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Newsletter Focuses on Tenants’ Rights Against Illegal Eviction Circumstances

03/08/21: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Special Assistance Programs for New Jerseyans During the COVID Pandemic

03/04/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Visionary Melville D. Miller, Jr. Dies

02/11/21: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on 2020 Federal Income Tax Returns and the Growth of Human Trafficking

12/10/20: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Child Support, Cold Weather Issues Facing the Poor and Homeless

10/27/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on the State’s Own Health Insurance Marketplace Program

10/05/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Domestic Violence Restraining Orders for Abused Victims

09/08/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on New Jersey’s Move to Mainly Mail Voting

08/27/20: Expungment reform opens doors and brings hope to many more in New Jersey.

07/29/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on the Federal Eviction Law Moratorium

06/08/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Temporarily Delaying Mortgage Payments and Foreclosure During the Pandemic

05/08/20: Legal Services Newsletter Highlights Unemployment, Family Leave, Food Stamps Benefits Available During The Pandemic

04/08/20: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Income Limits for NJ FamilyCare Programs and Time Limits for some Food Stamp Recipients

03/31/20: Legal Services Launches Program for Victims Enslaved by Human Trafficking

03/12/20: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Availability of Free Copies of Medical Records and Implications of the New Public Charge Rule

02/19/20: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Expungement Reforms, Federal Income Tax Returns

12/03/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on New Foreclosure Law Changes

11/06/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Help Paying Energy Bills and Whistleblower Protections

10/24/19: Legal Services of New Jersey President Stepping Down

10/10/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on what Can Be An Exasperating Situation: Being the Target of Revenge Porn

09/06/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Forthcoming "Public Charge" or Wealth Test for Immigrant Status

07/03/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on School Enrollment Issues and Related Matters

06/20/19: Focusing First on Stabilizing Measures to Preserve Families before Children are Removed from Their Parents’ Custody

06/07/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Landlord-Tenant Security Deposit Issues

05/31/19: Legal Services’ 2019 Major Awards Event Highlights Two Lawmakers and the Memories of Two New Jersey Legal Luminaries

05/08/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Recourses for Clients Against Unscrupulous Lawyers

05/01/19: Legal Services Gains Supreme Court Victory in Unemployment Comp Cases

04/24/19: Legal Services of New Jersey Statement on DHS Initiatives to Address Homelessness

03/12/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Meeting Health Insurance Mandate Laws

02/12/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on 2018 Federal Income Tax Returns and Some of the New Changes

02/07/19: New Do-it-Yourself Guide to Divorce Now Available from Legal Services of New Jersey

01/07/19: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Help Paying Energy Bills

10/25/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Safeguards for Domestic Violence Victims

09/28/18: Legal Services Sees Wave of New Applications for Expunging Criminal Records as New Reform Law Takes Effect Monday

09/11/18: Comments from Legal Services of New Jersey for Inclusion in Media Coverage of Latest Poverty and Other Statistics Being Released for Publication by the Census Thursday, September 13

09/07/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on School Nutrition Programs and School Bullying

08/01/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on School Enrollment Issues and Student Disciplinary Situations

06/20/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on the new Paid Sick Leave Law Affecting most New Jersey Workers

06/18/18: A Second Chance for Parents to Parent

05/08/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on the Charity Care Program that Helps Uninsured Poor People Pay Hospital Bills

04/17/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Child Custody Situations when One Parent Wants to Move Out of State

04/12/18: New Federal Action Would Cut Off Due Process Protections for Newly Arrested Immigrants

04/12/18: New Federal Action Would Cut Off Due Process Protections for Newly Arrested Immigrants (Spanish)

03/22/18: Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Special Enrollment Period for Obtaining 2018 Marketplace Insurance and Other Issues

03/01/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on 2017 Federal Income Tax Returns and some Key Changes for Next Year's Returns

01/19/18: Legal Services Urges Low-to-Moderate Income People to Take Advantage of Free Tax Preparation Services

01/11/18: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Minimum Wages, Unemployment Benefits, IRS Debt Collections, Expungement Issues

11/28/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Aid Programs to Reduce Utility Bills, as well as the Looming Termination of DACA

11/20/17: As New Jersey Legal Services Prepares for Its 50th Anniversary, One Client’s Story Depicts how the Organization has helped some 8 Million Poor People with Legal Problems over the Years

11/01/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Deadline for Obtaining Marketplace Private Health Insurance Policies

10/04/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Food Stamp Requirements and Other Services for Low-Income Residents

08/18/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on School Enrollment Issues and Help for Toddlers with Developmental Delays

07/05/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Covers New Jersey Tough School Bullying Law

06/20/17: A Second Chance for Parents to Parent

06/06/17: Legal Services Opens New Data Trove and Hall of Fame – The New Jersey Equal Justice Library and Archive and Circle of Honor

05/19/17: Two Legal Luminaries and Renowned Lawmaker Headline Legal Services' 2017 Major Awards Event

05/18/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Covers Social Security Reviews for Continued Disability Benefits

04/24/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Details Ins and Outs for Food Stamp Applicants

04/03/17: Legal Services of New Jersey now Offering its Online Gateway to Getting Criminal Records Expunged — in Spanish

03/28/17: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Focuses on Cyber Harassment Issues and Unemployment Benefits Applications

03/01/17: Statement from Melville D. Miller, Jr., President of Legal Services of New Jersey, Concerning the Potential Effect on the Poor of Proposed State Funding Reductions for Legal Services

02/20/17: Legal Services Urges Low-to-Moderate Income People to take Advantage of Free Tax Preparation Services

12/21/16: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Spells Out Options and Procedures Confronting Tenants About to be Evicted

11/10/16: Legal Services Expert on Issues Facing Ex Offenders Cited for Prestigious NAACP Award

10/27/16: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Covers Protections Available for Victims of Abuse

10/14/16: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Provides Details on Voting Rights and Tax Advantaged Savings Accounts for the Disabled

04/17/16: Legal Services of New Jersey Gearing for Waves of Inquiries Over Major Expungement Law Changes that Take Effect Tomorrow

04/13/16: Latest Legal Services Newsletter Spans Domestic Violence, Food Stamp, Child Removal and Expungement Issues

03/14/16: Legal Services of New Jersey Offering Consumer Law Training Sessions for Pro Bono Attorneys

03/07/16: Legal Services Keys Entire Newsletter to Tax Issues

02/11/16: Legal Services; Bilingual Videos Detail Free Tax Services for Poor People

11/18/15: Legal Services of New Jersey Introduces New Online Gateway to Getting Criminal Records Expunged

06/30/15: Free Legal Help Available for Sandy Victims Seeking Review of Disputed Damage Claims

06/28/15: Lack of Housing Plays A Critical Role for Poor Parents in Keeping their Families Together

10/06/14: Legal Services Creates Award In Name Of Former Gov. Kean; Justice James H. Coleman Jr. First Recipient

06/17/14: Impact of Substance Dependency Within The Child Welfare System

08/22/13: New Jersey Legal Services’ Videos Now Available on what Abuse Victims Need to know about Getting Restraining Orders

05/07/13: Legal Services of New Jersey to Present Free Training Session on Foreclosure Defense

11/29/12: Legal Services Announces Coordinated Statewide Legal Assistance to Hurricane Sandy Victims with Support of a Major New Grant

11/26/12: Legal Services Launches Special Sandy Hotline as part of Coordinated Statewide Effort to Help Victims

06/18/12: New LSNJ Report Reveals Widening

05/23/11: Assembly Panel Hears Legal Services Funding Plight

03/24/11: Legal Services of New Jersey Files Motion to Intervene in Foreclosure Case

11/10/10: Legal Services of New Jersey Offers Foreclosure Defense Training Seminar for Pro Bono Attorneys

05/19/10: Legal Services Announces Open Report on Human Consequences of Funding Crisis for Civil Legal Services, Further Staff Reductions

02/11/10: Legal Services of New Jersey to Aid Haitians Applying for Temporary Protected Status


POVERTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE NEWS RELEASES


09/08/22: New Legal Services Study Spotlights What True Poverty Looks Like in an Uneven Playing Field

07/11/21: Legal Services of New Jersey Study Finds Nearly 3 Million Residents in True Poverty — Three Times What the Census Reported

09/25/19: Comments from Legal Services of New Jersey for Media Coverage of Latest Poverty and Other Statistics Being Released by the Census for Publication Thursday, September 26

09/14/17: Key observations about the latest census figures on poverty in New Jersey

09/14/16: For Release Sept. 15 with Media Stories on NJ Poverty Statistics

09/09/16: Legal Services of New Jersey: Census Poverty Reports coming Tuesday and Thursday expected to depict Modest Decline in New Jersey Poverty but continue to Underestimate True Extent of Deprivation

11/15/15: Legal Services’ Annual Study Affirms Continuing Record Levels of Poverty Still the Norm in NJ; Offers Plan for Remidial Changes

09/15/15: Four Key Points about the Upcoming Census Release

12/18/14: Legal Services Study Finds Economic Recovery Not Stemming NJ Income Inequality

09/11/14: Official Census Poverty Rate In NJ Projected To Drop But Recession's End Offers Meagre Help For The Impoverished

08/31/14: New Legal Services Study Defines Poverty Based On What It Really Costs To Live In New Jersey

09/05/13: Poverty in New Jersey Mushrooms to Five-Decade Record

05/05/13: New Legal Services Study: Here's what it Really Costs to Live in New Jersey

09/20/12: LSNJ Analysis of New Jersey Impacts from Today’s American Community Survey

09/12/12: LSNJ Analysis Of New Jersey Impacts From Today’s Census Bureau Data Release

07/29/12: New Legal Services Study Shows New Jersey Rich Get Richer, Poor Poorer

09/23/11: Census Release Reveals Plight of Children in Poverty and Workers

09/22/11: Legal Services of New Jersey Reacts to Census Figures on Poverty

09/13/11: New Jersey Poverty Rate Hits Double Digits

03/22/11: New Jersey’s Escalating Phenomenon: Poverty

11/29/10: New Report on Welfare and Work by Legal Services of New Jersey Poverty Research Institute to Be Released at Conference in Edison

11/10/10: New Report on Living in Poverty in New Jersey to Be Released at Conference in Trenton

09/28/10: New Census Data Show Recession’s Impact on Poverty in 2009: Latest Poverty Data by Demographics and Geographies

09/28/10: 2009 Charts: New Census Data Show Recession’s Impact on Poverty in 2009: Latest Poverty Data by Demographics and Geographies

09/16/10: NJ Child Poverty Jumped while Overall Poverty Remained High in 2008-2009 Highlighting the Need for Increased Commitment to Anti-Poverty Programs

02/09/10: Report Presents Comprehensive Analysis of New Jersey Poverty, Calls for Coordinated State Approach & Goal-Setting