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Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

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New Sheriff, Old Problems: Advancing Access to Justice Under the Trump Administration

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

There is a crisis in access to justice in the United States. The justice gap—the gap between people’s legal needs and the legal services available—is wide and growing. Recent data from the Legal Services Corporation and the University of Chicago confirm that this gap primarily stems from a lack of i…