Chairman. the Legal Services Corporation is a product of its times. if you will. About 20 years ago. or starting around 1960. we began to address many. many problems of the poor. We got into consumer protection laws. both State and National. fair housing laws. fair debt collection practice acts. uniform credit codes. a proliferation of Indian and immigrant law. both legislation and courtmade law. and we had to address it with an agency that some how could get the beneficiaries access to their rights under these various created protection acts. and Legal Service Corporation was the answer. Now. to show the Members how busy it is. I took a check in the State of Michigan. where we have 5 donee agencies. and right now. there alone. we have 53.000 open files. 7.000 to 10.000 of them involving litigation.
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