Calculating family budget
The National Center for Children in Poverty’s has a new web-based tool – the Basic Needs Budget Calculator. The calculator shows how much a family needs to make ends meet. Basic Needs Budgets are provided for different family sizes and…
Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc. v. Shewry, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 4224917 (9th Cir. Sept. 17, 2008)
We’re not out of the woods, but it may yet be safe to go back to federal court on Medicaid claims. Just don’t expect to be paid for your trouble. That’s one lesson from this Ninth Circuit opinion which permits…
Clearinghouse Review article on community lawyering
In Race-Conscious Community Lawyering: Practicing Outside the Box, published in the July-August 2008 issue of Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, LSNC volunteer attorney (and former staff attorney) Tammi Wong discusses “community lawyering as a strategy to develop…
Changes to the California Food Stamp Guide
There is now a “blog” on the home page of the California Food Stamp Guide (FSG) that tells you about the latest changes to the Guide. (Thank you, Brian!) And, for those of you that don’t live and breathe for…
Enhanced Versus Traditional Job Clubs
MRDC has released a report that compared two Job Club strategies, traditional and enhanced services, in Los Angeles. The enhanced job club focused on career development activities and targeted job searches, and lasted 5 weeks; traditional focused on quick job…
