The repercussions of President Donald Trump’s proposal to zero out funding for Legal Services Corp. would be felt deeply by Pennsylvania’s poorest regions, where civil legal aid providers rely most heavily on federal dollars and are already struggling to meet the population’s needs, leaders of those organizations said.
Meanwhile, a drastic reduction in the services offered by federally funded providers would increase the burden on their locally funded counterparts, as well as on local governments and court systems, the leaders added.
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