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Talking about Poverty with Children
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsSesame Street is debuting a new muppet, a seven-year old girl named Lily, who is dealing with what is euphemistically called “food security issues”. Currently she is scheduled to appear in only... -
Poverty and Debt in Rural America
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 3 CommentsFew people in North Carolina or the rest of the country have not been touched by the recent economic downturn, but this slump has hit rural areas, including rural... -
Blame the Poor?
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsIt doesn’t take long to notice the increasingly negative rhetoric against the poor in the last couple of years. Even as people are losing their jobs and homes all around... -
The Legal Profession & The Great Recession.
Posted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsArrogant attorney stereotypes aside, there is a problem with the legal profession. Lawyers are constantly sharing news about the job market for lawyers and it isn’t good. In fact, the... -
The costs and consequences of residential segregation
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsRecent data shows that racial segregation isn’t just people of different racial and ethnic groups living in different places – it is about how such living patterns create and perpetuate... -
Poverty ain’t just being broke…
Posted on July 15, 2011 | No CommentsPoverty, especially inter-generational poverty, has an unmistakable but often unspoken impact on the dignity of an individual. People who learned from birth that there was no room at the table... -
Poverty & Anxiety
Posted on June 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe other day I was talking to a pastor from Winston-Salem about the foreclosure crisis. He told me that he counselled people to talk to the court, even if they had... -
Poverty & Legal Issues
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsLegal problems don’t exist in a vacuum. Even in the most expensive lawsuits between multinational corporations over the most obscure minutiae, there is latent context that not everyone sees. There... -
Legal Education for Women
Posted on May 23, 2011 | No CommentsWhy did we decide to limit our outreach to women? I’ve been asked this many times so I wanted to address this question directly. There is no doubt that men... -
A Bertie County Experiment in Community Transformation
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsPlease watch this Video of Emily Pilloton from Studio H. She is a designer, not a lawyer, but a lot of what she says in her TED talk relates to our...
