Michelle Chen

Journalist (NATIONAL)

Links: About Me | (Current as of: July 16, 2015)

Michelle Chen is a contributing editor at In These Times and Dissent magazine, and associate editor at CultureStrike. She is also a co-producer of “Asia Pacific Forum” on Pacifica’s WBAI and Dissent‘s “Belabored” podcast, and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Find her on Twitter: @meeshellchen.



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New York Courts Are Failing Non-English Speakers

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
February 16, 2017
Nearly three-fourths of surveyed legal-aid attorneys reported some of their cases had been adjourned due to lack of language services.

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Want to Know How Trump’s Policies Will Actually Impact Undocumented Immigrants? Read This.

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
January 27, 2017
How Trump will target immigrants, and how all of our communities can fight back.

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How Banks Stole Homes From the Most Vulnerable New Yorkers

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
July 15, 2016
Reverse redlining flooded communities of color with toxic mortgages, practically ensuring default.

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One More Way the Courts Aren’t Working for the Poor

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
May 16, 2016
There’s no right to indigent defense in civil cases—which means people living in poverty lose out.

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Spring Break’s Cleanup Crew

Michelle Chen
Slate
March 25, 2016
It’s the worst time to be a hotel housekeeper in Miami. The rest of the year’s pretty bad, too.

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Baltimore Evicts Nearly 7,000 People From Their Homes Every Year

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
December 14, 2015
According to a new study by the civil legal aid group Public Justice Center (PJC), those who face eviction proceedings are casualties of an economic crisis that has metastasized into a constitutional crisis.

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How Debt Collectors Ruin Lives

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
December 2, 2015
A recent lawsuit has helped expose what advocates describe as a reign of financial terror, threatening financially distressed consumers with spurious lawsuits to basically coerce people into paying debts they did not owe them.

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The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Baby Jails’

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
October 23, 2015
In the wake of last summer’s migrant crisis, DHS is still keeping families in detention centers. What could go wrong?

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Why Is It So Hard for Corinthian Students to Get Their Promised Debt Relief?

Michelle Chen
Nation, The
July 15, 2015
 After years of miseducating students nationwide, Everest College is finally toppling from its perch at the peak of the for-profit college bubble. But now thousands of alleged fraud victims are mired in a debt trap of epic proportions. Civil legal aid attorneys in Rochester, New York, are working to help students know their rights and get the debt relief they deserve.



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