El Paso courts, attorneys, and clients are struggling to absorb the automatic budget cuts that came into effect on March 2, 2013. Without congressional action, these cuts will curb access to justice even more in fiscal year 2014, which begins in October 2013. To read the entire article, see page 10 of the September El…

The term sequester might have sounded wonky and distant in the spring, but Americans now say it’s become all too real. According to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 22 percent of Americans say they have been significantly affected by the wide-ranging budget cuts. But that number jumps to 31 percent for people making less…

Since the start of the Great Recession, numerous articles and reports have detailed the employment woes of lawyers and recent law school graduates. An abundance of lawyers and a decline in traditional law jobs has led to an unfortunate scenario — many lawyers are out of work and those in law school have few prospects…

Weeks after a political stalemate set in motion $85 billion in federal spending cuts for fiscal year 2013, sequestration has shifted from a political debate in the halls of Congress to a looming reality in neighborhood streets – especially in some of the poorest areas of the country. To read the entire article, click here.

Project by project, Graciano Arechiga turned a broken-down house into a home his grandchildren could take pride in. With its rotting walls and roof, the house was little more than a shell when Arechiga moved it onto a small plot of land owned by his daughter in 2009. Arechiga, a 50-year-old migrant farm worker, set…