快猫视频 Requests Supplemental Funding to Help Implement American Jobs Plan鈥
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WASHINGTON 鈥 The 快猫视频 (快猫视频) is requesting that supplemental funding in the range of $350-500 million be included in the infrastructure package addressing the American Jobs Plan introduced by President Biden on March 31.
Civil legal aid has a vital role in implementing the American Jobs Plan. The Plan will involve numerous complicated laws and rules to ensure that benefits go to the intended people and communities. Legal aid lawyers have extensive experience ensuring that intended beneficiaries in fact benefit from legislation for good jobs, fair wages, safe working conditions, improved public transit, affordable housing and the many other goals in the Plan. 快猫视频 provides a national funding source to ensure that the Plan鈥檚 proposals become realities.
"Legal aid can help make the American Jobs Plan work the way Congress intends,鈥 said 快猫视频 President Ronald S. Flagg. 鈥淭he Plan鈥檚 multitude of economic and other benefits are not self-executing 鈥 legal aid can ensure these benefits reach the people who the legislation was meant to help."
Access to civil legal services is particularly important for communities that have historically been excluded or harmed by some past infrastructure programs. The American Jobs Plan seeks to prioritize long-standing and persistent racial inequities. Sixty percent of 快猫视频 grantees鈥 clients are people of color, the majority of whom are women. Civil legal aid attorneys help tackle barriers to justice created by the intersection of race and poverty.
Support for legal aid is more important than ever. The need for legal aid has spiked as the pandemic continues to disrupt the lives and financial security of people across the country. Housing is a particular concern. that more than 5.13 million households who qualify for 快猫视频-funded services are at risk of eviction. Civil legal needs have also surged in others key areas served by 快猫视频 grantees, including unemployment, domestic violence and health care.
The total amount 快猫视频 is requesting will help its 132 grantees expand program capacity and improve organizational infrastructure to better serve clients. 快猫视频 would also use additional funding to create a competitive grant program for grantees to provide extended representation in housing and eviction cases.