Taking Action to End Poverty

Join the Clearinghouse Review Online Discussion of Affirmative Advocacy and Leadership Development

The editorial team of the Shriver Center's Clearinghouse Review invites you to participate in an online discussion about the future of legal aid. Ross Dolloff and the Leadership Institute Fellows from the Center for Legal Aid Education will moderate the discussion centering on articles they have written for the March-April 2008 issue of Clearinghouse Review. The articles and discussion group are open to everyone, not just subscribers. Sign up for the group here.


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The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is a national law and policy center that takes action to end poverty through policy development, communications, and impact litigation.

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The State of Poverty

  • Number of children: 12.9 million
    ...four times the number of all the children in Illinois
  • Number of seniors 65 and over: 3.6 million
    ...the same as the entire population of Oklahoma
  • Number of women: 14.6 million
    ...the entire population of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa combined
  • Number reporting a disability: 8.0 million
    ...a population larger than the State of Massachusetts
  • Number of homeless: 3.5 million
    ...twice the population of Nebraska
 

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