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As State Budget Debate Continues, NYC Bar Pushes Legal Services Funding, Sounds ‘Alarm’ on Children’s Representation (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, April 4, 2023
As State Budget Debate Continues, NYC Bar Pushes Legal Services Funding, Sounds ‘Alarm’ on Children’s Representation
As debate over the next state budget continues, the New York City Bar Association has issued multiple letters to Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders urging increased funding for civil and immigration legal services and, in a third letter, sounding an ‘alarm’ that Attorney for the Child offices statewide are ‘suffering an unprecedented crisis of underfunding’ marked by ‘essentially flat budgets for close to twenty years.’
