If you want to see one of the biggest casualties of the 2008 financial
downturn visit the lobby of the Legal Aid Society on Tuesday mornings.
You will see long lines, many turned away, and the harm inflicted on
legal assistance programs for the poor in the United States with the
cut in the interest paid in trust accounts and a decrease in public
assistance. Just when millions were in need of a lawyer to help them
weed through the foreclosure crisis and battling the big banks and
mortgage companies, the legal aid societies across America reduced
staff. In Cleveland, they had to layoff 8 staff last year and had to
limit their services.
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