Archived Press Releases

New Data Finds 36.5 Million Americans in Poverty (August 28, 2007)
Blagojevich Makes Health Care Top Priority (August 14, 2007)
The Preservation Compact: A Rental Housing Strategy for Cook County (May 31, 2007)
Elizabeth Ring Joins the Shriver Center as Vice President of Operations (April 20, 2007)
Kids at a South Side School Save $50,000 (April 9, 2007)
Voluntary Dismissal of Medicaid Citizenship Lawsuit (March 30, 2007)
Governor’s Budget Includes Historic Advances for Child Care and Health Care (March 7, 2007)
Illinois Governor Leads the Way to Health Care for All (March 7, 2007)
Shriver Center President Honored with a House Resolution (February 22, 2007)
Five New Members Added to the Board of Directors (January 10, 2007)
John Bouman Named President of the Shriver Center (January 8, 2007)
Safe Homes Act Protects Survivors of Violence (January 4, 2007)
Supreme Court in Roberts's First Term Reveals Little About Federal Court Access (December 15, 2006)
Walter Mosely to Speak About Poverty in America (November 28, 2006)Shriver Center Honors Change Makers Paula E. Boggs and Raul Yzaguirre (November 28, 2006)
Shriver Center Attorney William P. Wilen Honored as Original Drafter of Tenants' Bill of Rights (November 20, 2006)
Shriver Center Attorney Katherine Walz Wins 2006 Housing Justice Award (October 25, 2006)
A Right to a Lawyer?  Clearinghouse Review Special Issue on Right to Counsel in Civil Cases (July 31, 2006)
8 Million Spared, 40 Million Could Still Be Harmed, Litigation Expedited in Medicaid Suit  (July 7, 2006)
Suit Challenges New Law Requiring 50 Million in Medicaid to Document Citizenship (June 28, 2006)
U.S. District Court and Federal Bar Association Honor John Bouman of the Shriver Center (June 6, 2006)
What the Federal Government Must Do to End Poverty, Clearinghouse Review June 2006 Special Issue (June 1, 2006)
Preserving Community, Creating Opportunity: Shriver Center Honors Those Who Preserved One-Third of Lawndale Restoration Project (May 23, 2006)
Shriver Center Offers New Ways to Build Assets and Make Illinois Money Smart (May 1, 2006)
Violence Victims Are a Step Closer to Having Safer Homes: Safe Homes Act Passes the Illinois General Assembly (April 27, 2006)
Attack Foreclosure Equity Stripping Scams Through Legal Strategies, Shriver Center Journal Says (April 15, 2006)
Shriver Center Unveils New and Improved Website (April 3, 2006)
Five new members added to the board of directors of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (January 3, 2006)
The many facets of poverty and how to grind them away is the focus of the latest issue of the Shriver Center's Journal of Poverty Law and Policy (December 21, 2005)
Shriver Center honors Jeffrey Sachs and Morgan Spurlock at awards ceremony: The State of Poverty: America's Undeclared Disaster Area (December 5, 2005)
Shriver eJustice to offer better technology leadership for the poverty law community (November 17, 2005)
One more entrance screen for the low-income housing population: Credit reports (October 21, 2005)
National advocate to give keynote at Nebraska conference on the uninsured (October 6, 2005)
Michelle Lanz to address coalition of bankers and advocates at Financial Links for Low-Income People (FLLIP) awards luncheon (September 23, 2005)
Shriver Center provides disaster assistance legal resources (September 7, 2005)
Shriver Center publishes special Clearinghouse Review issue on Youth in Poverty (August 17, 2005)
John Bouman of the Shriver Center wins the 2005 Child Health Advocate Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (July 8, 2005)
600,000 children in Cook County to receive better access to health care (June 24, 2005)