Monica Stempo, a former bartender in D.C., joined other restaurant, self-employed and gig workers who testified to the D.C.
With courthouses still closed, judges and legal aid groups fear people who can’t afford lawyers are being shut out of the civil justice system altogether.
As hunger spreads across a locked-down nation, the Trump administration has balked at the simplest ways to feed the hardest hit, through expanding school meals programs and food-stamp benefits and waiving work requirements as unemployment reaches
By the end of the semester, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the students became more thoughtful, empathetic grantmakers.
On Tuesday, D.C. lawmakers suspended the filing of eviction complaints until 60 days after the emergency order ends.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed emergency covid-19 legislation that would require landlords to accept rent payment plans and delay foreclosure actions.
As one of the most intensely gentrifying cities in the nation, the District cannot afford for this crisis to further fuel displacement. The D.C. Council has passed impressive measures protecting residents during this unprecedented time.
Sharing space in a residential building can be awkward or frustrating even in the best of times.
A Trump administration rule that would have tightened work requirements for food stamps was blocked by a federal judge on Friday, who cited the rapidly spreading coronavirus in her decision. D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A.
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