The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is a national law and policy center that takes action to end poverty through policy development, communications, and impact litigation. For more information, see our website at www.povertylaw.org.The non-profit Shriver Center provides national leadership in efforts to increase justice and opportunity for low-income people by ensuring a humane safety net, a chance to prosper, and a voice and representation in public decisions that affect them. The Center engages in direct advocacy campaigns in Illinois and around the country to improve policies and programs on specific issues, and also engages in broader advocacy on general issues of justice and opportunity.