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Group Sign-On Letter to President-elect Obama and Congress Urging the Suspension of Time Limits for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program (12/18/2008)
The undersigned groups urge you to include the suspension of time limits in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program in the economic stimulus legislation currently under consideration. Cutting families off TANF, the national assistance program for impoverished families with children, at a time of high and rising unemployment violates fundamental social justice and human rights principles and will further strain other safety net resources already taxed to the breaking point (including homeless shelters and soup kitchens). You have rightly recognized that jobless workers need the safeguard of extended unemployment insurance benefits. So too, do TANF recipients at risk of losing their benefits at this tenuous economic moment, need to continue to receive these benefits.

Sign On Letter to House of Representatives Urging Members to Vote Against the Class Action Fairness Act (02/23/2005)

Coalition Sign-On Letter Urging Exemption of Civil Rights and Wage Hour Cases from S. 5, the Class Action Fairness Act (02/02/2005)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Expressing Concerns about the Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone Act of 2003 (PRIDE), the reauthorizing legislation for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Programs (03/31/2004)

Coalition Sign-On Letter to the House Requesting Funding Priority for Title X National Family Planning Public Health Program in FY 2005 (03/17/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Urging Support for H.R. 2282, the Equal Access to Justice Reform Act (03/11/2004)

Coalition Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act in order to Protect the Rights of Victims of Discrimination, Consumer Fraud and Toxic Pollution (01/26/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Urging Support for H.R. 1155, the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (12/15/2003)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging Support of S. 557, the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (12/09/2003)

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) Sign-On Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003 (09/16/2003)

Letter to the Senate Finance Committee Urging Opposition to Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone Act of 2003 (PRIDE) (09/10/2003)