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Cuts to Legal Services will Hurt Needy, Poor in NJ

May 26, 2017

From NJTV News – Lawmakers and advocates take aim at New Jersey’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. It’s been the same level — $424 — since Ronald Reagan was president in 1987.

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