Fighting for Nebraska’s farmers: Farm and Ranch Project hires new attorney
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers and ranchers were facing significant financial distress. A variety of factors, including the devastating 2019 floods, contributed to the economic downturn in which these once financially stable farmers and ranchers had...A message from the Executive Director
Summer 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives so much in the last four months, but it also has cast a long-time reality into sharp relief. Each day, we are reminded of the fact that grocery clerks, package deliverers, waiters, sanitation workers, meat...
COVID-19 hits home: Legal Aid helps Grand Island woman receive unemployment benefits
The financial impact of COVID-19 is being felt worldwide, including right here in Nebraska. In Grand Island, one of the hardest hit areas in the state, many immunocompromised workers faced the heart-wrenching reality that they may contract the virus while working to...A Nebraska first: Douglas Co. judge cites federal CARES Act in halting eviction
In a victory for tenants struggling to pay their rent during the COVID-19 crisis, Douglas County Court Judge Thomas K. Harmon (Omaha) ruled this past week that the federal moratorium on evictions found in the federal CARES Act was in force in Nebraska. In this case,...
