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August 15, 2017 - 10:18 am
Bill Quigley, Contributor Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans
Question One. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 14.8 percent or 46 million people are living in poverty in the US. How many of those people living in poverty are children?
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August 14, 2017 - 2:25 pm
By Greg Kocher
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August 12, 2017 11:04 AM
Auto Plaza USA in Nicholasville will pay more than $600,000 in taxes, penalties and fees that were inaccurately billed to customers, according to an agreement announced Friday by the...
July 21, 2017 - 11:13 am
Anthony McGrath our Rural Summer Legal Corps has completed his 10 week project focusing on government-assisted housing. He has done great work this summer assisting our attorneys in these efforts. Thank you Anthony!
July 18, 2017 - 2:12 pm
By Richard Dawahare - Lexington-Herald Leader
Let there be light. And truth. And justice. Justice pursued with courage, molded by civility, tempered with compassion, applied with mercy and achieving hope, faith and fairness for all concerned.
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July 14, 2017 - 9:19 am
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Eleanor Klibanoff
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Eric Conn was supposed to learn his sentence Friday. He's the Kentucky man who federal authorities say perpetrated the largest fraud in Social Security history. The...
June 23, 2017 - 9:23 am
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Eastern Kentucky attorneys are offering advice to people trying to escape domestic violence after one Laurel County woman was murdered by her husband Tuesday night at their home. "What we try to do is make a difference victim by...
June 19, 2017 - 10:38 am
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERYJUNE 18, 2017
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Unable to recover the balance of loans by repossessing and reselling the cars of owners who default, some subprime lenders are...
May 23, 2017 - 9:39 am
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Joshua Wilkey
Poor people are cash cows.
It makes no sense, really. One would think that poor people, by virtue of being poor, would not be profitable customers. However, for many large corporations that target...
May 18, 2017 - 12:14 pm
May 17, 2017, 11:26am Dr. Jessica Wilkerson
It's fashionable to note that Appalachia voted overwhelmingly for Trump—and to predict political karma since he's proposed massive funding cuts that will affect the region. But people in Appalachia have a long...
May 10, 2017 - 10:07 am
May 9, 201712:31 PM ET
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Meg Anderson
The $25 million Labre Place in Miami was built using the low-income housing tax credit program. It's named for the patron saint for the...
May 9, 2017 - 3:31 pm
FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 1, 2017) – A new telephone hotline gives qualifying parents free legal assistance related to their custody and visitation concerns. The toll-free Custody and Visitation Hotline number is 1-844-673-3470. Phone lines are open Monday-Friday...
May 9, 2017 - 9:20 am
By Bill Estep
bestep@herald-leader.com
Eight counties in Eastern Kentucky had the biggest decline in life expectancy in the country between 1980 and 2014, according to a study released Monday.
Owsley County had the biggest drop in the nation at 2.3...
April 21, 2017 - 2:16 pm
Stephen Bright, tireless civil rights advocate, leaving Southern Center
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By Bill Rankin - Richard Halicks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stephen Bright argues the Foster case before the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2015...
April 20, 2017 - 2:42 pm
Please join us on Saturday, September 16, 2017, at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, KY for our Bluegrass...
