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Teaching And Practicing Community Development Poverty Law: Lawyers And Clients As Trusted Neighborhood Problem Solvers, Susan Bennett, Alicia Alvarez, Louise Howells, Hannah Lieberman Jan 2017

Teaching And Practicing Community Development Poverty Law: Lawyers And Clients As Trusted Neighborhood Problem Solvers, Susan Bennett, Alicia Alvarez, Louise Howells, Hannah Lieberman

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Transactional Clinics As Change Agents In The Trump Era: Lessons From Two Contexts, Priya Baskaran, Michael Haber Jan 2017

Transactional Clinics As Change Agents In The Trump Era: Lessons From Two Contexts, Priya Baskaran, Michael Haber

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The results of the 2016 presidential election and the efforts by the Trump administration to make sweeping changes to a wide range of federal policies have left communities across the country feeling overwhelmed and threatened. In its first year, the Trump administration has been working steadily to slash budgets for health care, housing, infrastructure, schools, and other public benefits that help low-income and middle-class Americans, while adopting policies and engaging in rhetoric that has made many immigrants, Muslims, people of color, and LGBTQ people feel increasingly vulnerable and marginalized.

The authors of this commentary run law clinics that provide pro …