ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland public housing agencies are failing to accommodate people with disabilities, according to Maryland Legal Aid. Staff attorney Kathy Hughes has two clients - one blind, one deaf - who have been at risk of being evicted from their homes because they didn't get communications t ...Read More

CONCORD, N.H. - Five million dollars is there for the taking to help local residents understand their coverage options under the Affordable Care Act - but first, lawmakers need to accept the offer. Lisa Kaplan Howe, policy director, New Hampshire Voices for Health, said around 130,000 local resident ...Read More

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin's Lemon Law, which has been on the books since the '80s, is said to be one of the best in the nation. If you plunk down your hard-earned dollars for a new car and it turns out to be a lemon, you get a prompt refund or replacement. But Republican lawmakers are considering a ...Read More

RICHMOND, Va. - As a U.S. Senate committee prepares to vote this week on a sweeping immigration reform bill, advocates for children say it contains critical provisions for protecting and helping immigrant youth. It includes a pathway to citizenship, and other provisions to keep families together. ...Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - With coal-fired power plants around the nation shutting down, why are corporations such as American Electric Power trying to sell coal-generating capacity to customers in West Virginia and Kentucky? Critics say the corporations are trying to move plants that are no longer cost-ef ...Read More

NEW YORK – Advocates in New York and the nation have been using social media in an effort to keep the immigration reform drive alive in Congress – and they believe it's working. The U.S. Senate spent this week marking up the immigration reform bill, and Maryann Sinclair Slutsky, execut ...Read More

DENVER - This week Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill into law that will expand Medicaid to include more than 160,000 Coloradans who are currently living without health-care coverage. Elisabeth Arenales, the Health Program Coordinator for the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, point ...Read More

NEW YORK - New Yorkers with disabilities have cause for concern when it comes to possible future disasters and terrorism events, because the U.S. Justice Department says the city is in violation of federal law in failing to prepare. In a statement filed in the Southern District of New York, the Depa ...Read More