Economic Justice Project

From its inception, the EJP has worked in close collaboration with the Welfare Rights Initiative, a grass-roots community organization based at Hunter College. As the legal arm and counsel to WRI, the EJP provides legal training and support for WRI lay advocates, staff and counselors, assisting in the production of public education materials and position papers to facilitate outreach and advocacy efforts. EJP interns conduct joint community education and training sessions with WRI.

In addition, EJP has committed, insofar as possible, to represent any CUNY student referred by WRI. Over the past seven years, WRI and the EJP have engaged together in a broad array of advocacy, educational and social change activity that includes individual representation permitting over 1,500 CUNY students to remain in school, organizing, public education, and legislative advocacy that recently yielded progressive reforms to state and local welfare laws.