Rural Access to Justice
Chavis Policy Group focuses on raising awareness about the access to justice gap in rural communities.
Chavis Policy Group focuses on raising awareness about the access to justice gap in rural communities.
Rural America is suffering from an access to justice crisis.
20% of Americans live in rural communities, but yet only 2% of lawyers practice there. Rural America is also home to the most deeply entrenched poverty in the country.
I raise awareness about these issues through writing and other forms of media.
On January 20th, Donald Trump will take office as the 47th President of the United States and become the first President since Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms. While there are a lot of unknowns about the coming four years, there are some battles that will be retreads from President Trump’s first term.
Anyone who has advocated for rural health care access will remember one of the coming battles: Medicaid work requirements. In recent weeks, Republicans have indicated an interest in revisiting this issue. For those of us who remember that battle in rural and Tribal communities, it is sending up alarm bells.....
For this post, I am going to revisit a post I made seven years ago in which I discussed the role that law schools can play in alleviating the rural lawyer shortage. While academia has made some progress, namely in the establishment of rural legal clinics, it has not tackled the problem in a way that could lead to meaningful change....
Understanding rural access to justice issues in the rural South can be a bit complicated. As I outlined back in February, many places in the rural South have withstood the complete collapse of democracy in their communities. For the first half of the twentieth century, communities of color in these states had to reckon with a world where every lever of power, including the media, was captured by white supremacist interests. The people affected were denied access to anything that could have reasonably built wealth, their ability to own property was restricted, and they were limited in what educational or economic opportunities they could pursue. The scars of this past can be seen in high poverty rates and other statistics of despair across the region. Understanding this history is important to understanding the difficulties accessing justice in these communities and why it's important to fight for it....
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