The Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia Legal Services Program will be hit hard by a major cut to the federal Legal Services Corp.’s 2012 funding.
LSC is the major funder of civil legal assistance in the nation. Congress was expected to vote Thursday on an appropriations bill that will cut the federal entity’s $398.1 million budget to $348 million. That is a compromise between the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which proposed slashing LSC’s funding to $300 million, and the Democratic-controlled Senate, which proposed a slight decrease to $396.1 million.
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