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How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap

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  1. FollowTheWay

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    How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap

    Rising inequality has harmed low-income families not only by depriving them of a fair share of society’s income growth, but also in a more specific way: It has stacked the legal system even more heavily against them.

    According to a recent survey, more than 70 percent of low-income American households had been involved in eviction cases, labor law cases, and other civil legal disputes during the preceding year, and in more than 80 percent of those cases they lacked effective legal representation.

    Indigent persons charged with crimes are entitled to state-sponsored lawyers, but here, too, funding shortages are widespread.

    The stakes in criminal proceedings are often enormous, but civil disputes often produce life-shattering outcomes as well.

    That’s why Congress created the Legal Services Corporation in 1974, a nonprofit whose mission is to support civil legal aid for low-income citizens. But the Legal Services Corporation was never adequately funded. And in the ensuing decades, rising income inequality has contributed both to a reduction in the supply of legal assistance to low-income families and an increase in the need for it.

    .....the Legal Services Corporation, which received more than $860 million in 1981, received only $385 million in 2017(both in 2017 dollars).

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    A disabled friend was charged with a crime he physically could not have committed (Dr's assessment). A store security camera and a store manager reinforced that he was not guilty. Still the judge told him that if he couldn't prove himself INNOCENT he was going to jail. Is this justice for all? of course not. There are two systems of justice in America. One for the rich and one for the poor.
     
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    Fair share of society's income, give me a break. People getting wealthier doesn't effect others from also becoming wealthy. Its a myth.
     
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    They are now reaping the whirlworld of the failed dems/obama economic policies from his tenure in office!
     
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    Since when do you have to prove yourself innocent? This is not Latin America.
     
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    Why that's just incredibly shocking news!

    And what sort of legal representation should people that don't pay their rent receive? What laws are being violated?
     
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    ....and liberty and justice for all.
     
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    And lease contracts and enforceable contract law for all...
     
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    Slowing Job Growth under Trump.jpg
     
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    ... except the landlord.
     
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    Hmm... four months has yielded 1 million new jobs. So on an annual basis that would be 3 million new jobs. When is the last time there were 3 million new jobs created in a year, according to your graph? Answer: Never.

    And that's your idea of slowing job growth? Blowing away every year shown on your graph?
     
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    Difference would be that the jobs under Obama were pretty much lower wages, many under trump higher waged, and real income is going up for many now!
     
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    Never any proof of your outlandish statements.
     
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    He did sayb that those good payingmmanufacturing jobs were gone for good, but somehow trump did not believe him!
     
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    The BLS has monthly and quarterly data on employment and wages if you care to look it up. Then you can disprove the claim if it is false.

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    Total compensation for Private industry workers in All industries and occupations, 3-month percent change


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    Total compensation for Private industry workers in All industries and occupations, 12-month percent change
     
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    Here is some for ya:

    "Investing.com -- A new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton indicates that 94% of the 10 million new jobs created during the Obama era were temporary positions.

    The study shows that the jobs were temporary, contract positions, or part-time "gig" jobs in a variety of fields.

    Female workers suffered most heavily in this economy, as work in traditionally feminine fields, like education and medicine, declined during the era.

    The research by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard University and Alan Krueger at Princeton University shows that the proportion of workers throughout the U.S., during the Obama era, who were working in these kinds of temporary jobs, increased from 10.7% of the population to 15.8%.

    Krueger, a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was surprised by the finding.

    The disappearance of conventional full-time work, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work, has hit every demographic. “Workers seeking full-time, steady work have lost,” said Krueger.

    Under Obama, 1 million fewer workers, overall, are working than before the beginning of the Great Recession."

    Nearly 95% of all new jobs during Obama era were part-time, or contract
     
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    Looks like it is going up in all the charts!
     
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    Wonder which oner here is making outlandish claims now, eh?
     
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    Are you accusing me of that?
     
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    Nope, our friend that was the spokesman for president Obama, and now for all the no trumpers among the Dems.
     
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