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.
From the New York Times, economic professor Robert Frank argues that rising inequity harms low-income families not only by depriving them of a fair share of society’s income growth, but also by also stacking the legal system against them. Get…
Our Community Economic Development Program (CED) supports local, community-based work with technical assistance, legal services, and education to remove barriers to economic opportunity. Recently, our CED program director, Justin Edge, was featured on the North Carolina State Bar website showcasing…
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….
Pisgah Legal Services, along with Our VOICE, Helpmate and the Mountain Child Advocacy Center, is proud to be part of a collaborative effort to address and prevent domestic violence, sexual violence and child maltreatment. Thanks to a groundbreaking grant from Community Foundation of WNC’s Women for…
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…
Come to the Reuter YMCA in South Asheville or the YMCA in Hendersonville to find out more about the latest on immigration law and policy changes. See the flyer with all the details. To attend, please RSVP to Ally Wilson…
Find out how Angela and Josh both found the help they needed at Pisgah Legal Services, as well as all the details on our upcoming Poverty Forum, the terrific volunteers and donors honored this summer, and how one Asheville couple…