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In 1996, a Republican-controlled Congress prohibited lawyers receiving federal funding - the mainstay of nearly all poverty law offices - from engaging in class-action lawsuits and matters involving abortion, illegal immigration or challenges to reduced welfare benefits inaugurated by President Clinton and some other Democrats.
It's deeper poverty.
Regarding the G-7's decision to write off much Third World debt, as long as the money is redirected to social programs such as health, poverty reduction, and AIDS education, the Nation of Pakistan said, "[E]conomic good conduct that requires tightening of belts and good governance is something that the Third World was badly in need of.
Nowadays, a poverty lawyer working for one of New York's many agencies representing the indigent - including Legal Aid, the South Brooklyn Legal Services, the Lawyers Alliance for New York, InMotion, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Volunteers of Legal Service, the Bronx Defenders and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest - might begin his or her career at $32,000 per annum, compared with the $125,000 average first-year associate salary at the city's larger firms.
A history of this sort of folly might start with some of the failed schemes of the New Deal economists before describing the way that the "whiz kids" led LBJ astray on both the Vietnam War and the war on poverty.