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From Center for Law and Social Policy:
This document chronicles civil legal assistance for the low-income community in the United States from its privately funded beginnings, through its achievement of federal funding, and to its expansion and growth into a national program operating throughout the U.S.
It also describes some of the political battles that have been fought around the legal services program and the restrictions that have come with government funding.
It concludes with some brief thoughts about the future. This is a revision of the original report, which was published in 2003.
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Posted on February 7, 2007 08:59 PM
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