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For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units.
But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been then head of the New York City’s main housing agency getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing officials felt community preference conflicted with an Obama administration rule requiring municipalities to show how they are combating exclusionary housing. But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
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While more Pennsylvanians are seeking help from public assistance programs such as food stamps and Medicaid due to the coronavirus pandemic, that’s not the case for the state’s welfare program – enrollment has actually fallen by more than 15,000 people since last March.
Why are fewer people getting welfare in this time of high unemployment, expanding enrollment in other safety net programs, and increasing hunger?
Advocates and officials say it is likely because the program – which has not increased the amount of money it gives to families since the 1990s, roughly $400 monthly for a family of three – provides too little cash and requires too many hurdles to be of much use to poor families.
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Berger Montague is pleased to announce that it has promoted Shareholder Caitlin G. Coslett to become the newest co-chair of the Firm s antitrust department, joining Eric L. Cramer, David F. Sorensen, and Merrill G. Davidoff. Berger Montague s antitrust department is often lauded for its innovation and expertise, most recently in November 2020, when the group was named one of
Law360 s Competition Groups of the Year.
Attorney Caitlin G. Coslett
Ms. Coslett focuses her antitrust practice on complex antitrust economic and expert issues, class certification, and litigation at the trial court level and on appeal. She has worked on numerous antitrust class action cases during her tenure at Berger Montague, including those alleging price-fixing and others asserting that drug manufacturers have violated federal antitrust law by wrongfully keeping less-expensive generic drugs off the market. Her work on gen
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It’s been 217 days since Congress instructed the IRS to send $1,200 stimulus checks to every citizen below a certain income threshold. And yet, it’s likely as many as 12 million people including those who most need a financial boost never got the cash.
The reasons include confusion about how the complex program works, IRS missteps, technical snafus and Treasury Department policy decisions that cut out large groups of people altogether. Those who fell through the cracks have until Nov. 21 to claim the money or risk losing out on any second round of stimulus payments, which Congress has been negotiating for months.