colorado legal services
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Denver City Council raises funds to aid tenants facing eviction
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Denver recently rolled out a new program to aid those facing a “housing crisis.” Late last week, Denver City Council members took an unconventional extra step in launching an effort to provide legal aid to Denverites facing eviction. Ten council members pooled money totaling $123,600 in donations from office budgets and personal contributions to help…
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Cynthia Coffman, attorneys general ask Congress to preserve federal legal aid funding
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, and her Democratic counterpart in Massachusetts this week organized 30 of their fellow attorneys general urging Congress to reject a Trump administration budget proposal that would eliminate federal spending on civil legal services for rural and low-income Americans. “For more than 40 years, under Republican and Democratic administrations, the Legal…
