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Dialogue around ‘coercive control’ in relation to financial abuse is gaining steam in the US, with California passing laws to protect victims from collectors
By Lori Kiely & Mary Jane Foster On March 16, when the Hartford region essentially shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the phones at Interval House became very quiet. Image Mary Jane Foster By early April, the number of calls to the Hartford police was so great that the department dedicated four officers to domestic violence incidents. The phones exploded, and in the next three months, the number of telephone contacts rose 58% over the same period in the previous year. Victims needed to know whether to stay or go, how to stay safe in a dangerous home, how to prote...
Jan. 26, 2021 Soon after the first round of stimulus payments went out in April, tax attorney Nancy Rossner was hearing from survivors of intimate partner violence: They were being blocked from receiving the relief they were owed. “We started getting calls from survivors and advocates for survivors whose stimulus payment was deposited or sent to their former partner, who was typically their abuser, and they were refusing the survivor access to the payments,” said Rossner, a senior staff attorney for the Community Tax Law Project, a Virginia-based tax clinic that aides low-income families....
We asked experts what’s plausible (Salwan Georges/Christopher Smith/The Washington Post; Lily illustration) Anne Branigin Jan. 20, 2021 When President Biden took his oath of office on Wednesday, the most diverse administration in U.S. history came into power. It has done so at a time of multiple crises: The coronavirus has spiraled, even as vaccination efforts are underway. A massive economic downturn has disproportionately driven women out of the workforce — most of them Black and Latina. And while Donald Trump is out, Trumpism continues to roil the country. Still, many advocates sa...