Budget cuts legal aid for poor, but no explanation given

"Legislators took a bite this past session out of taxpayer funding for poor people caught up in the courts system, and it's unclear why.

The heads of the three agencies that used this money – and a much larger pot of threatened federal funding – to handle thousands of child custody cases, landlord/tenant disputes and other civil matters said they received no notice for the cut and that they've gotten no explanation in the ensuing month."

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