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Publication Date: October 2002
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Kenneth F. Boehm; Peter T. Flaherty
Research Area: Justice
Keywords: Legal issues
Type: Report
Abstract:
The Legal Services Corporation cannot be reformed. Because money is fungible in the hands of private groups with more than one funding source, no new restrictions can insure the accountability of taxpayer funds. Most legal problems faced by the poor fall into several basic categories: family, including divorce, custody, guardianship and child support; housing, including landlord/tenant controversies; financial, including bankruptcy, wills, estates, and inability to pay bills; consumer; employment; and public benefits. While taxpayer funds are provided to Legal Services for the handling of individual cases, too great a portion of such funds are used to pursue class action suits and ideologically important test cases.