Archive for August, 2012
Invasion of the Body Attachments – No Wait – They Are Already Here
August 2012I do not normally read the electronic version of the weekly ABA Journal, which shows up in my email periodically. But the August 24 addition caught my eye because I am a payday lending news junkie, and the teaser sucked me in with: “Payday Lenders Using Courts to Create Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons in Missouri, Critics […]
Continue ReadingHow Not to Talk About Poverty
August 2012How We Should Change Our Message and Language to Build a Movement to End Poverty Written By Melissa Salamon, Guest Blogger, OPLC Summer Intern, and 2L at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Our society continues to project an aura of negativity around the term poverty, but advocates are working hard to change […]
Continue ReadingSchool Discipline Is a Community Issue: Why People Whose Kids Are Grown or Who Don’t Have Kids Should Care About What’s Happening in Our Schools
August 2012Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” Jane Nelson Children “should be fully prepared to live an individual life […]
Continue ReadingUnderstanding Prepaid Debit Cards – Starting Up The Learning Curve
August 2012On July 25 the Ohio Poverty Law Center sponsored “Law and Economics of Poverty”, a training for legal aid attorneys in Ohio, at which many of us were introduced to prepaid debit cards as an alternative to conventional banking. Also referred to as general purpose reloadable prepaid cards (GPR prepaid cards), these cards are relatively […]
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