Thanks to HollerCast for featuring Pisgah Legal staff members Pat Casey and Maxine McLaughlin! Pat Casey, office manager and outreach team member, and Maxine McLaughlin, regional director for the WNC Health and Economic Opportunity Program, spoke about all that Pisgah…
In a recent interview with WLOS News 13, PLS Executive Director Jim Barrett spoke about how people in Western North Carolina will benefit from Medicaid expansion. “We’ve been advocating for this expansion for 10 years because we see so many…
On March 2, North Carolina lawmakers reached an agreement on expanding Medicaid — something Pisgah Legal has been advocating for for more than a decade! Medicaid expansion will make a huge difference in the lives of more than half a…
Recently the Mountain Xpress spoke with PLS Homelessness Prevention Program Director, David Bartholomew, about how evictions have risen to pre-pandemic levels. To build local capacity to meet the growing need, Pisgah Legal Services developed the WNC Housing Fellows program. We are…
Life is about to get even harder for low-income people who depend on Food and Nutrition Services, better known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) or “food stamps” to feed themselves and their families. Beginning in March, North Carolina households…
Do you need quality, affordable health insurance? Pisgah Legal COO Jackie Kiger recently spoke with WLOS about how Pisgah Legal’s certified Navigators help people in Western North Carolina enroll in health care plans on the Healthcare.gov Marketplace. Watch the Spotlight…