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State''s Poor to Lose $2 Million in Legal Aid, Legal Aid and Defender Association Forecasts.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 13-NOV-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1049 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002

Michigan will lose $2 million in federal funding and $600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003, according to Deierdre L. Weir, executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc., the state's largest provider of legal services to the poor.

Current federal funds of nearly $10.7 million from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will drop to $8.7 million for next year, according to Weir. She said that the reductions reflect a decline in the number of persons in the state who are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census.

LSC uses census data to determine funding across the nation, and according to the census, the state's poverty population fell from an estimated 1.2 million in 1990 to an estimated 968,000 in 2000.

The state's legal aid agencies are also bracing for yet another cut in 2003 of...



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