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Entries by Madison Eckardt
New Network Brings Critical Benefits to Immigrant Families in Need
The LA-based collaborative connects outreach workers, benefits enrollers, attorneys and clinics to reach immigrant families, address their fears, and enroll them in desperately-needed benefits Even as they struggled to put […]
CA Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline
Families and community group sue education department for allowing dozens of districts to suspend, expel and transfer students of color—and Black students in particular—at alarming rates, sanctioning an unequal system […]
NLSLA Featured in Wilmer Valderrama’s Podcast
NLSLA President & CEO Yvonne Mariajimenez and housing advocate Trini Ocampo joined actor and activist Wilmer Valderrama on his “Essential Voices” podcast to discuss the pandemic’s impact on Los Angeles’ […]
NLSLA Pushes Policy Change at EDD, Halting Discriminatory ID Practice
In March of 2020, Ms. S lost her job as a result of the pandemic. Around that time, she also became homeless. She applied for unemployment insurance benefits, but was […]
NLSLA Sues to Help Elderly Tenants Trapped In 16-Floor Building With Broken Elevators
There are only two elevators in the 260-unit building known as Cathay Manor in LA’s Chinatown, and neither of them works. The first elevator broke down in May, forcing the […]