Program areas at New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
Education - advance educational opportunities and improve outcomes for New mexican children; protect the rights of students to a sufficient and equitable public education system through legal action; provide research and community engagement to generate systemic improvements to education.
Health care access - increase access to health care coverage and services for low-income children and families; reduce medical debt for the uninsured and under-insured; protect the rights of medicaid recipients; generate systemic improvements in the policies, benefits, services, and administration of health care programs intended to serve low-income New mexicans; and provide research and analyses of health care proposals.
Public benefit programs - increase access to nutrition and income assistance programs for low-income New mexicans; protect the rights of public benefits-eligible New mexicans as a group; generate systemic improvements in the benefits, services, eligibility criteria and administration of the programs, and ensure adequate funding of the programs.
Program service expenses: 315,052, grants and allocations: 0,revenue: 92,906 economic equity - protect income and assets for low-income New mexicans against unfair economic practices; increase access to fair loans and reduce abusive and wrongful debt collections; generate systemic improvements to policies, services and administration of affordable housing; and protect the rights of low-income New mexicans against evictions and discriminatory housing practices. Program service expenses: 256,513, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 104,806 workers' rights - promote fair treatment of workers by investigating the working conditions of low-income workers and their treatment by employers, informing workers of their rights and employers of their obligations under the Law, compelling government agencies to enforce labor laws and filing legal actions. Program service expenses: 24,355, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 civil legal services - increase the availability of legal services for the poor in New Mexico by planning with other providers in the system, attempting to increase resources available to providers and revising regulations and rules where doing so reasonably increases access to legal services.