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JUSTICE IS A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF OUR DEMOCRACY THAT WE CANNOT TAKE FOR GRANTED. FOR MOST LOW-INCOME MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, JUSTICE IS OUT OF REACH. THE ALLIANCE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE IS WORKING TO CHANGE THAT.

The Alliance for Equal Justice of Washington state is a network of organizations providing civil legal aid to those with nowhere else to turn. Formed to coordinate and foster collaboration, the Alliance provides critically needed services-information, advice and representation-to those in need.

For many, legal aid means the difference between shelter and homelessness, food on the table and hunger, family safety and continued abuse, productive work and unemployment.

Young mother gets legal help to get back on the path to self-sufficiency

A Lewis County mother of two young children was forced to apply for welfare when the father left during her last trimester of a complicated pregnancy. DSHS insisted that the mother start working three months after the baby was born, but the mother had problems complying because the infant suffered from... [Read More]

Filed in: Working Poor, Housing, Health, Children County: Lewis County