Apr-27-2022
At this point it’s clear that COVID-19 is a public health emergency that has laid bare socio-economic inequities. One of the ways this has been expressed is through the occurrence and evolution of legal needs during the pandemic and how public policy decisions impacted the incidence of unmet legal needs. And while we inch towards a return to normalcy, it is important that we learn what lessons we can from this experience and be better prepared to meet the needs of the public in times of widespread crisis. Our program data from 2020 provides an important case study.