Join Jacksons Food Stores and the Idaho Partners Against Domestic Violence. Beginning Thanksgiving Day and throughout the holiday season you can buy a dove for $1 at any Jacksons Food Store and help prevent domestic violence through community awareness presentations on healthy teen relationships and adolescent dating abuse by the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence and provide free legal assistance to battered women and children by Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program and Idaho Legal Aid Services.

Boise, Idaho 9/10/2011--Idaho Legal Aid has implemented a Fair Lending/Fair Housing Legal Advice Line to address issues or questions about housing discrimination. The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing based on a person’s race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, or familial status (the presence of children under the age of 18)...

More than 60 million Americans are now eligible for civil legal assistance at the legal aid offices funded by LSC, recently released U.S. Census Bureau data show. These Americans had incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty line—$13,613 for an individual and $27,938 for a family of four...

JACKSON, Miss.

JOHN MILLER - Associated Press

Published: 05/12/11

Washington, DC—The Fiscal Year 2011 budget for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) would be cut by $15.8 million, reducing funds for civil legal assistance to low-income Americans, according to