Legal Aid bringing best-selling author Matthew Desmond to Lincoln
Legal Aid is excited to announce Matthew Desmond, best-selling author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (2016), will provide a free public lecture on Thursday evening, October 8, at the Sheldon Museum of Art Auditorium on the UNL campus. Desmond...
Legal Aid successfully keeps creditor from garnishing stimulus check of unemployed, pregnant mother
The financial impact of COVID-19 can be felt across the world, but for one Nebraska woman, the struggle to provide for her family was reaching its breaking point. Danielle* is a single mother raising a small child with another on the way. She was laid off during the...Federal stimulus payments may disappear for thousands of low-income Nebraskans
SPANISH Federal CARES Act stimulus payments will soon be arriving in low-income Nebraskans’ bank accounts, many of whom have already lost their jobs and steady income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this stimulus payment, intended to help pay for food, rent,...
