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Public Access Design

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Happy Meals?

City Studies

Happy Meals?

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

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Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Print Language Rights are Civil Rights!

If you don’t speak English in NYC and you’re trying to access government services, NYC and NY State’s innovative language access laws guarantee you the right to the assistance of an interpreter. But many immigrant communities aren’t aware of this right and routinely lose access to critical services because they don’t speak English. In 2012, CUP worked with designer Melissa Gorman and the Language Access Project at Legal Services-NYC to create Language Rights Are Civil Rights!, a wallet-size foldout on language access that you can also use to ask for an interpreter.

This issue of Public Access Design is fully translated into Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Urdu, Korean, Polish, and French – the 10 most commonly spoken languages of the city’s limited English proficient population. 

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City Studies

Fast Trash

The Internet is Serious Business

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The Internet is Serious Business

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Housing Court Help

Public Access Design

Housing Court Help

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Public Access Design

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City Studies

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Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

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Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

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