This opinion piece in the New York Times discusses the vote by House Republicans to cut $83 million from President Obama’s request for the Legal Services Corporation, the federally financed nonprofit program that provides civil legal help to low-income Americans.
The piece states the given the economic crisis, including budget problems in many states and historically low interest rates which have served to evaporate funding from interest earned on lawyers’ escrow accounts, and the long line of desperate clients, this is the worst time to be cutting federal support for civil legal services.
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