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INPUT NEEDED: New Rule Would Extend Health Coverage Access for People with DACA

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed a new rule that would make people with Deferred Action for...

KEJC is Hiring a Coordinator for the Kentucky Food Action Network

The Kentucky Equal Justice Center seeks an advocate with experience in community organizing as the Coordinator for the Kentucky Food...

Congratulations, Sadiqa Reynolds: Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion 🎉

KEJC's letter supporting the nomination of Sadiqa Reynolds's nomination as a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion wrote itself.

Kentucky Workers Town Hall

Congress Must Act Immediately to Extend and Expand UI $600 Supplemental Income Kentucky — Since the end of March, an extra $600 a week in...

KEJC Speaks Out Against Oklahoma's Bad Medicaid Proposal

Changing Medicaid to fit the state's budgets isn't just bad for Medicaid and the people who need it; it's illegal.

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Here’s the latest on food, health coverage, childcare, unemployment insurance and housing.

Can my landlord raise the rent during COVID–19?

A friend of mine texted to ask me if a landlord could raise the rent 1) during a global pandemic during which 2) Kentucky's Governor has...

Questions and Some Answers About Gov. Beshear’s Suspension of Evictions in Kentucky

On March 25th, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear issued Executive Order 2020-257. As part of the emergency effort to contain the spread of...

KEJC Requests that Representative Meade Produce the Studies Showing Widespread Fraud

House Bill 1 contains harmful, unnecessary barriers to Kentucky's public assistance programs.

Senate Bill 11: A Bad, Unnecessary Bill

Senior Litigation and Advocacy Counsel Ben Carter testified this morning in a Senate committee hearing in Frankfort against Senate Bill...

Unfair Changes to Fair Debt Collection Practices Favor Corporations over Consumers

Before coming to KEJC, I regularly confronted unfair debt collection practices as an attorney at AppalReD Legal Aid in Eastern Kentucky....

House Bill 3: Expensive, Failed, and Illegal Policies

KEJC has drafted a letter explaining the ways in which House Bill 3 would impose illegal and/or unconstitutional restrictions on...