A letter by Adriene Holder, Attorney-in-Charge of the Civil Practice at The Legal Aid Society, appeared in an article in The New York Times which highlighted the perspectives of nonprofit workers grappling with social and economic turmoil generated by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

“The COVID-19 crisis has intensified the struggles our clients — many of whom are poor, Black and brown, and other minorities, women, children and immigrants — face in order to merely survive,” Holder wrote. “What they need is security, stability and compassion, through long-term housing subsidies, increased unemployment insurance benefits and a proper living wage, and access to health care and education.”

Read the full piece here.