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Pisgah Legal Managing Attorney Jackie Kiger discusses what you need to know when enrolling in a healthcare plan on WLOS Spotlight Carolina.
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Pisgah Legal Services Managing Attorney Robin Merrell (pictured far left) is an advocate and attorney representing low-income people living in low income in need of legal assistance. In October she was elected chairman for the North Carolina Housing Coalition where…
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Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) runs Nov. 1 through Dec. 15. There are a few changes in healthcare options this year, and Asheville Citizen Times, WLOS News 13, and Blue Ridge Public Radio highlighted those changes as well…
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Pisgah Legal Services has not taken an official stance on the proposed NC Constitutional Amendment known as Marsy’s Law, but did provide a quote for a recent article in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Read the full article.
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Pisgah Legal Services is proud to support a new initiative, Family Friendly Affordable Buncombe (FFAB). This initiative is made up of multiple coalitions advocating to use increased property tax revenue from Mission properties to address some of the county’s significant issues….
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If you missed this year’s Poverty Forum, or want to hear more about keynote speaker Kathryn Edin’s research, you can listen to this interview with BPR’s Matt Bush on Blue Ridge Public Radio. When Kathryn Edin was studying poverty in…
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PLS Executive Director Jim Barrett spoke at a recent rally where more than 1,000 people gathered in Asheville to protest family separation and the government’s zero tolerance immigration policy. Read all about it in this Mountain Xpress story. (Mountain Xpress…
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Did you know that three-quarters of households are so poor that they qualify for government-subsidized housing but cannot get it due to lack of government funding? And when people pay too much for housing compared to their income, they don’t…
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A new exhibit at Washington, D.C.’s National Building Museum is based on Matthew Desmond’s book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was last year’s speaker at the Pisgah Legal Services’ Poverty Forum. Hear…
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Read this opinion piece in the Asheville Citizen-Times by PLS Board President Lee Anne Mangone.
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