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Jul 17, 2014 · A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web Fixes When Poverty Makes You Sick, a Lawyer Can Be the Cure By Tina Rosenberg July 17, 2014 9:30 pm Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why...
When Poverty Makes You Sick, a Lawyer Can Be the Cure Good introduction to medical-legal partnerships, explaining how they help people, doctors and lawyers. From the NYT Opinionator "Fixes" blog. Column (Massachusetts, NATIONAL, New York, Ohio) Tina Rosenberg New York Times (NYT) July 17, 2014 New York Times article
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Jan 21, 2020 · CLP Event: When Poverty Makes You Sick, Sometimes a Lawyer Can Be The Cure: Medical Legal Partnership (Johns Hall, Room 101) South Carolina Legal Services (SCLS) attorney Kirby Mitchell will discuss the highly successful Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) between Furman, SCLS, and Prisma Health. The MLP helps solve the problems in the community that …
When Congressman Paul Ryan talks about consolidating means-tested programs like food stamps, child care, welfare and housing into a single grant, he’s talking about a block grant. And that’s something we already know all too much about.
First, we need to raise wages so that workers earn a living wage. The minimum wage must be increased to catch up with productivity growth, and workers must have the right to organize and collectively bargain for better wages. Second, we need to eliminate racial and gender inequality in the labor market.
The TANF block grant created in 1996 made cash assistance much harder to obtain. In 1996, about 68 percent of families with children living in poverty were able to get TANF cash assistance. Now about 25 percent can get it.
The SSBG is a capped, flexible stream of funding to states that funds services such as adoption, childcare, counseling, child abuse prevention, community-based care for seniors and people with disabilities, and employment services. Last year it helped approximately 23 million people, about half of them children.
Tianna Gaines-Turner is a member of Witnesses to Hunger, a program hosted by the Center for Hunger Free Communities at Drexel University featuring the voices and photography of parents and caregivers who have experienced hunger and poverty firsthand.
At Partners In Health, we believe that health is a social justice issue. While other organizations provide short-term relief to crises or basic levels of health services, PIH is committed to providing long-term care and addressing the root causes of health problems -- most notably, poverty.
The Poverty Makes You Sick campaign was a multi-platform effort to bring an often ignored issue into the conversation on social media. The Partners In Health team used a combination of photos, videos, and written pieces, as well as the hashtag #PovertyMakesYouSick, to encourage people to share the message.
The Poverty Makes You Sick campaign was successful in bringing a conversation to the forefront about poverty and sickness, as well as in leading PIH's annual end-of-year fundraising efforts.
When poor teenagers arrive at their appointments with Alan Meyers, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center , he performs a standard examination and prescribes whatever medication they need. But if the patient is struggling with transportation or weight issues, he asks an unorthodox question:
The bike program is one example of the various ways physicians are attacking a vexing problem that’s not in any medical handbook: Poor patients are sicker, and their poverty actually makes them sick.
The rub is that Medicaid and other insurance don’t cover many of these services, so the groups are often left scrambling for funds. As Perrin puts it, the programs are “being paid for with a combination of bubble gum and rubber bands.”