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Commentary: A Call for Change on Legal Services Corporation Funding Restrictions

March 25, 2010

Article from OMB Watch advocating for legislative support for the Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 which addresses the most problematic restrictions on LSC grantees - those that prevent the use of non-federal funds to advocate on behalf of the neediest of our communities, and also increases the yearly LSC authorization to $750 million, which matches the amount (adjusted for inflation) appropriated in 1981.

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