Tag: language access
AMN Languages Services Reports on LEP in Healthcare
AMN Languages Services, the division of AMN Healthcare that provides medical interpretation services, recently conducted a survey documenting the diversity of languages used in...
Restart Financial Inc. launches Multilingual Banking Service for Immigrants
As of 2019, approximately 63 million Americans were either unbanked or underbanked, putting these individuals at a financial disadvantage compared to their counterparts with...
Improving Language Access for Local Rent Relief Programs
The Council for Court Excellence (CCE), a Washington, D.C.-based legal advocacy group, has recently published a letter calling on D.C.’s government to make its...
New Mexico’s Language Access Services Best in U.S.
In its recently released Justice Index, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) named the state of New Mexico as the number one...
Streaming on Twitch in a Minority Language
About 99% of the internet’s content is written in just 30 languages — and more than half of that content is written in English....
The Underrepresentation of African Languages in Tech
Like any other continent on Earth, Africa is home to hundreds — and potentially thousands, depending on who you ask—of indigenous languages. Some of...
Developing MT Benchmarks for Under-Resourced Languages
Machine translation (MT) systems have little difficulty translating between languages like Spanish and English or English and Chinese — but for languages with limited...
Bill to Improve Language Access in Mortgage Servicing
Last week, the United States House Committee on Financial Services passed a bill that would improve language access services during the mortgage lending process....
NHeLP’s Fight for Language Access During the Pandemic
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) has recently filed a civil rights complaint arguing that numerous agencies at all levels within the United States...