America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”.
Feature (NATIONAL)
Lincoln Caplan
Harvard Magazine
October 20, 2017
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Tags: Justice for All
Organizations mentioned/involved: Legal Services Corporation (LSC), California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. (CRLA)
Feature (NATIONAL)
Lincoln Caplan
Harvard Magazine
October 20, 2017
READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Tags: Justice for All
Organizations mentioned/involved: Legal Services Corporation (LSC), California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. (CRLA)
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Smith’s vision has never been realized in the United States, but it haunts the debate about how best to serve the legal needs of poor and low-income Americans—and about whether we even know what works best to solve the problems of this group. Poverty’s effects on human health are well documented: lives tend to be sadder, harder, and shorter. But the effects on poor and low-income people’s lives of needing a lawyer and not having one are not well documented at all.