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Category Archives: Advocacy
Legal Services To Release Poverty Benchmarks Report – March 22, 2011
Date: Tuesday March 22, 2011 Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Place: New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, 205 W. State St, Trenton, NJ Legal Services of New Jersey invites you to the public release of Poverty Benchmarks 2011: Assessing New … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Nonprofit
Tagged Legal Services of New Jersey, March 22, poverty, Poverty Research Institute
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LIHEAP Action Day – February 9, 2011
Today is LIHEAP Action Day. Join with others to press Congress for at least $5.1 billion in federal funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for Fiscal Year 2012. For a list of local energy assistance organizations … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Nonprofit
Tagged LIHEAP, LIHEAP Action Day, New Jersey SHARES, NJ Community Resources
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EITC Awareness Day – January 28, 2011
Earned Income Tax Credit Can Put Money in Your Pocket You could be eligible to get more money back from the IRS – as much as $5,666. If you earned less than $48,362 from wages, self-employment or farming last year, … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Community Resources, Nonprofit
Tagged 2-1-1, EITC, IRS, tax credit
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AARP Tax-Aide
The following bulletin was issued by the AARP Foundation, located in Washington, D.C. The service performed by AARP compliments the work of VITA sites (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) and IRS’ Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). AARP Tax-Aide is the nation’s … Continue reading
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Tagged AARP Tax-Aide, EITC, tax assistance
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Energy Tips: How To Navigate The System To Get Help
It seems this will be a hard winter. Unemployment still high, colder than average temperatures in the state, delayed energy funding etc etc etc. If you work in a social service agency and need to provide the public with helpful … Continue reading
A Bad Storm Forming For Energy Consumers
The large ranks of New Jersey’s unemployed face a difficult winter based on the programs currently available to assist energy consumers. In recent years Washington and Trenton responded to what has been called the Great Recession. However, this winter the … Continue reading
Fugitive Safe Surrender – November 3-6, 2010
Wanted By The Law? – Fugitive Safe Surrender – November 3 – November 6, 2010 For four days in November fugitives in New Jersey will be able to stop running and start to get their lives back on track. The … Continue reading
A Sad Day For New Jersey
For the second time this month Governor Christie decided today to stop construction on the ARC (Access to the Region’s Core) tunnel between New Jersey and New York City. Unfortunately the decision to stop the largest infrastructure project underway in … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy
Tagged ARC, Assemblyman Albert Coutinho, Governor Christie, New Jersey AFL-CIO
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Financial Reform Summit – September 14, 2010
Financial Reform Summit Making it Work for New Jersey A Statewide Education and Implementation Summit Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Rutgers University Student Center 126 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 To attend please RSVP by … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen Action Education Fund, Financial Reform Summit
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Help For Homeless Veterans: HUD Announces New Funding
Today is Independence Day, a national holiday, a day we celebrate with family and friends at barbecues, at the beach, watching fireworks. It’s also a day we pay tribute to the members of our armed forces and their families. Earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Community Resources
Tagged homeless, HUD-VASH, VA Medical Centers, veterans
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