Clinics are legal aid at risk. In the framework of the last month budget compromise the not-for profit organization legal services Corporation saw their funding $ 15.8 million 4 per cent of the entire budget slashed. First House Republicans proposed the LSC budget cut by a whopping $75 million, but after President Obama a boost of $30 million proposed, both sides agreed in the smaller cut. But this is the latest in a series of legal aid cuts that vulnerable have left poor Americans for the worst aspects of the economic recession with little legal protection.

As Marian Wang reports for Pro publica, the 15.8 million US dollars in federal aid cut more jobs comes as Governments are both forced, legal aid cuts despite the increasing demand for free. Legal services NYC, lost this year's federal budget for example about $720,000 thanks to the. "You reach a point where you can no longer absorb" the cuts, said Edwina Frances Martin, a spokeswoman for legal services NYC.

The same applies clinics that have endured in the last decade a vein in the vicinity of debilitating cuts California legal aid. Clinics by one are threatened in addition to cuts the federal funds from the LSC California legal aid nor more significant reduction to the State-based interest on lawyers trust accounts, collecting interest on funds, the lawyers temporarily for their customers are distributed, people in need keep legal aid. Nationwide, this fund fell 75% of $ 371 million in $2007 92 million in the year 2009. In California, the Fund sharply by $ 22 million declined a $ 7 million in 2008 year of later, reports of the San Francisco recorder.

The decline of the legal aid funding should ensure as a serious disability, that "our legal system works for the millions of Americans, in the most vulnerable are in our society and that we fulfill our national promise of equal access to justice" said LSC Chairman John Levi earlier this year. LSC President James Sandman added "need more people legal services than ever from recession, high unemployment and slow economic recovery."

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