Blog Action Day: Poverty

Today is Blog Action Day. What's that? Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day- to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. The topic this year is Poverty.
Here are some poverty law resources:

• The Poverty Law listserv hosts a discussion of substantive, pedagogical and practical issues as they relate to poverty law and the poor, including the role of government. It's hosted by Washburn School of Law and co-owned by Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola, New Orleans.
• The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is a national law and policy center that takes action to end poverty through policy development, communications, and impact litigation.
• The Shriver Center also hosts the Poverty Law Library, a collection of over 500,000 legal documents.
• The Census Bureau Poverty Statistics has lots of data.
• The Center for Law and Social Policy is a national nonprofit that works to improve the lives of low-income people.
• The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty works to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.
• The Southern Poverty Law Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups.
• The ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty provides policy-based advocacy on behalf of homeless and impoverished people.
• The Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. - Poverty Law Program offers legal services for people who are eligible for services and have a legal problem that they handle.