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Legal Aid helps highlight on how expensive it is to be poor


Posted March 16, 2016
1:55 pm


WOIO highlights one Cleveland woman's journey with financial difficulties and legal hardships - a common issue of Legal Aid clients. Melanie Shakarian, Legal Aid's Director of Development and Communications explained, "We help 20,000 people a year with about 9,000 cases and through every one we see how expensive it is to be poor."

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