Legal Services
* While reading “Budget’s Impact Will Be Modest for Most” (July 30), I noticed a quote by Washington consultant Peter J. Davis. He joked that Congress “may have to bring back the old Legal Services Corp. just to explain this stuff.” Mr. Davis, Congress won’t have to bring back LSC because it never went anywhere; it is very much alive after 23 years.
The Legal Services Corp. funds 275 local legal aid programs around the country to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans. Last year, LSC grantees resolved 1.4 million civil cases, benefiting some 4 million individuals, the majority of them children living in poverty.
Although some vocal opponents in Congress regularly threaten to kill LSC, the majority support the work that LSC attorneys do: resolve cases that arise out of the everyday problems of the poor.
DOROTHY LOHMANN
Press Secretary
Legal Services Corp., Washington
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