Legal Aid Society of Cleveland Must Cut Budget
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland must cut $1.4 Million from its budget in the upcoming year, at a time when its clients' legal needs are more urgent than ever. To read more, click here.
Classes Help to Find Road Out of Poverty
The Akron Beacon Journal is featuring a series of profiles of individuals hoping to climb out of poverty after learning financial skills, including how to save. The classes, which are part of the Bridges out of Poverty program, are called Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By-World. To read more, and find links to the entire series [...]
Capital Law School Honors Board Member Janet Green Marbley
Janet Green Marbley, Administrator for the Supreme Court of Ohio Clients’ Security Fund and a Foundation board member, has received Capital University Law School's David D. White Award. The award is named for the first African American to graduate from Capital's law school, who then became the first African American to practice law in Columbus. [...]
Summit Will Examine Women’s Poverty, Disparate Wages, Leadership
Otterbein University in suburban Columbus is hosting a weekend summit which will examine poverty, disparate wages and a role in leadership, all as applied to women. In Ohio and throughout the United States, women make up the majority of people living in poverty. To read more, click here.
Passions Run Deep Over the Best Ways to Combat Poverty
The Toledo Blade has teamed with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on a series of articles about poverty, attitudes toward the poor, and political responses to poverty. To read more, click here.
Central Ohio Food Banks Now Offer Fresh Produce Year Round
Department of Agriculture surveys estimate that about one in six Ohio households don't always have enough food, and must rely on resources such as food pantries. Several central Ohio food banks are now offering farmers' markets to allow food insecure households access to fresh produce. Low income people may suffer from more diseases or generally [...]
Legal Aid Programs Continue Services Despite Reductions in Funding
Ohio's legal aid programs are continuing to provide critical civil legal services despite drastic reductions in both federal and state-based funding for 2012. In late November of 2011, Congress voted to cut the fiscal year 2012 federal funding for legal aid programs by almost 15 percent. The cut amounts to a loss of about $1.4 [...]
Voluntary Pro Bono Reporting Period Halfway Completed
Ohio attorneys are now halfway through the time period available for voluntary pro bono reporting. The website which permits attorneys to report pro bono activities on a voluntary, anonymous basis will be maintained through March 31, 2012. All attorneys with an active Ohio registration, and an email address on file with the Supreme Court's Office [...]
Poverty Expanding Beyond the Urban Center of Columbus
New research by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University shows that poverty is spreading throughout Franklin county. The study, presented to 250 community leaders at a conference held in Columbus' Veterans Memorial Auditorium, showed an increase in unemployment in 64 percent of census tracts within Franklin county, [...]
Hamilton Area Leaders Experience Challenges of Poverty
Hamilton area business and government leaders experienced first hand the challenges faced by people living in poverty as they participated in the "Cost of Poverty Experience" at the Butler County Educational Service Center. Participants were assigned roles and had to complete daily living tasks expected for the role, allowing participants to experience the frustration and [...]