That public defenders have scarce resources to do their job is about as surprising as the fact that people living in poverty don&#x27;t invest in the stock market.<p>&gt; My clients, like the millions of other people in the United States who are currently represented by public defenders, deserve better.<p>The poor are massively underserved, disenfranchised, disrespected, demoralized and more in this country -- no doubt about it.<p>Unfortunately, the unfair justice system is step 1000 in a chain of events with powerful institutional momentum.<p>We cannot even begin to address this without addressing economic disparity first.