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During a traffic stop last summer in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Seti Johnson was surprised to learn that his driver's license had been revoked for unpaid traffic tickets.
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Medicaid waiver proposals that subject recipients to bureaucratic hurdles such as work requirements are having a disparate impact on communities of color.
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Brian Howell, an unemployed man whose leg was amputated following a car accident, was assessed over $1,000 in court fines for three traffic violations in the city of Corinth, Mississippi.
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President Trump is quietly curtailing access to social safety nets for our nation’s most vulnerable people.
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The city of Gardendale, Alabama and its municipal court have cut ties with a private probation company that ran an illegal, profit-driven, private probation scheme in the city by exploiting low-income defendants and violating their federal constitutional and state rights.
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The proposal from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Alabama Medicaid Commissioner Stephanie Azar to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients is a solution in search of a problem.
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Fifteen Kentucky residents who are enrolled in Medicaid filed a class-action lawsuit today against the Trump administration, challenging its approval of sweeping changes to Medicaid law that will endanger the health care of tens of thousands of low-income individuals and families in the state.
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Courts in 14 Alabama counties awarded $2.2 million to law enforcement agencies through civil asset forfeiture actions filed in 2015 – and in a quarter of the 1,100 cases, law enforcement sought to keep property seized from people who were never even charged with a crime, according to a report released today by the SPLC and the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB’s) plans, under new leadership, to “reconsider” a rule that protects consumers from harmful payday and car title loans are a blatant effort to aid the powerful, predatory lenders who routinely trap these borrowers in a cycle of debt.
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How Alabama's Profit-Driven Civil Asset Forfeiture Scheme Undercuts Due Process and Property Rights
