California Economic Justice Initiative
We offer our consumer law expertise, recognized in California and throughout the country, to California legal service attorneys, private attorneys, and advocacy organizations who share our goals of consumer justice.
Domestic Violence Survivors
One out of every three women will be abused by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Many of these survivors of domestic violence live in poverty and in a perpetual state of economic insecurity. According to a report from the General Accounting Office, almost 20 percent of welfare recipients had experienced domestic violence in the prior year, and about 65 percent had been victims of domestic violence at some point.
Immigrants
Having made the often-difficult journey to America in search of opportunity, America’s newest residents all too often find themselves easy prey to the consumer abuses that thrive in the low-income communities in which many of them live.
Katrina Survivors
NCLC is working with national and local organizations to provide effective relief that will provide a foundation for rebuilding the low and moderate income communities and elder services devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Massachusetts Economic Justice Project
NCLC offers our consumer law expertise, recognized in Massachusetts and throughout the country, to Massachusetts legal service attorneys, private attorneys, and advocacy organizations who share our goals of consumer justice.
Military Personnel
Consumer Scams and the Direct Targeting of America's
Military and Veterans.
Native Americans
Native Americans are subjected to predatory and unfair business practices by a host of “fringe’ market businesses, including payday lenders, pawn shops, auto-pawn dealers, rent–to-own companies and others. Clustered around reservations, predatory merchants have filled the void left by banks and other traditional lending institutions who are reluctant to lend on reservations because land is held in trust and tribal laws fail to provide sufficient security for loans made on reservations.
Older Consumers
The National Consumer Law Center receives funding under Title IV of the Older Americans Act to improve the quality and accessibility of legal assistance for vulnerable older Americans with consumer problems.
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