Georgia’s much-discussed rural lawyer shortage has not improved and is in danger of becoming much worse, lawyers and judges are saying.

The budget is on the chopping block in Washington for the organization that provides lawyers to handle civil matters for low-income people around the country. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget has cut all funding for the Legal Services Corp., the national umbrella organization for legal aid lawyers in all 50 states. As it happens, one of the founders of that organization was Trump’s rival in last fall’s election, Hillary Clinton.

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