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PSJD Public Interest News Digest – September 2, 2022

Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives

Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress

Hello, interested public! Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s been another week and the implications of President Biden’s student loan relief policy are still starting to sink in. In particular, policy analysis of the way loan relief restructures income-based payments going forward is starting to happen, and individual states are weighing in on whether loan relief will be treated as taxable income in their jurisdictions. In other news, a lawsuit filed in Texas alleges that new abortion restrictions infringe on individuals Constitutional freedom of travel, a bipartisan group of criminal justice leaders condemned Gov. DeSantis’ decision to remove a locally-elected district attorney, and the New Republic reported that “in 2019, the IRS’s watchdog evaluated a representative sample of organizations using the EZ form and found that nearly 50 percent did not qualify for their tax-exempt status.” All these stories and more are in the links below.

Take care of one another,

Sam

Editor’s Choice

Student Loans & Student Debt

Rule of Law

Free and Fair Elections

Reproductive Rights

Non-Profit & Government Management & Hiring

Access to Justice – Civil & Economic

Access to Justice – Criminal

Criminal Justice Reform and Counter-Reform

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