For media inquiries, contact Dawn Raftery at dawnraftery@povertylaw.org. See our most recent press releases below.
“Public charge" rule changes put public health and millions of families at risk.
No family should have to make that choice between meeting their basic needs and being with their loved ones.
When employees work for tips, the power dynamic between service-provider and customer is fundamentally changed
A proposed rule would upend the longstanding legal standard of disparate impact.
Tipping proliferated in the United States after the Civil War, when the restaurant and hospitality industries hired newly emancipated Black women and
The Shriver Center on Poverty Law unreservedly condemns this inhumane and cruel rule.
Legislators unanimously pass law after hearing from justice-involved individuals, community members, and advocates from the Shriver Center.
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