by Molly Coleman | Dec 7, 2020 | Coronavirus
The People’s Parity Project led a coalition of fourteen organizations, including the National Women’s Law Center, the National Education Association, Young Invincibles, and Americans for Financial Reform, to call on Congress to reject Mitch...
by People's Parity Project | Sep 1, 2020 | Coronavirus
The People’s Parity Project contributed to the latest special issue of the UCLA Law Review, entitled Law Meets World. In “Making Unemployment Insurance Work For Working People,” PPP organizers Emma Janger, Nicole Rubin, and Sejal Singh wrote about...
by People's Parity Project | Aug 27, 2020 | Coercive Contracts, Coronavirus, In the News
This summer, law students around the country have been fighting our own schools’ efforts to lobby for corporate immunity. Universities, like many other employers, are lobbying Congress to pass sweeping liability waivers that would make businesses and...
by People's Parity Project | Aug 20, 2020 | Bar Exam, Coronavirus
The People’s Parity Project is proud to join more than 120 fellow public interest organizations in supporting diploma privilege as the only safe and equitable remedy to state bar examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by the Public Rights Project, a...
by People's Parity Project | Jul 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Harvard
Students at Boston University, Suffolk University, and Harvard Law School launched petitions demanding that their schools break with prominent higher ed lobby groups, which are advocating for legislation that would immunize corporations from COVID-19-related lawsuits....
by People's Parity Project | Jul 15, 2020 | Coronavirus, Student Debt
Student debt is limiting possibilities for entire generations. We all lose out when people are penalized for years—even decades—for seeking an education. That’s why we joined 100 other civil rights and community groups to urge congressional leadership to include...