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Barack Obama: “Access to legal aid can help put people on a path to self-sufficiency.”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2015
Access to legal aid can help put people on a path to self-sufficiency.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Memorandum on Establishment of the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable

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