Legal Aid Says Layoffs Inevitable: ; Federal Spending Cuts Force Program to Tighten Budget
Charleston Gazette › December 21, 2011
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Federal spending cuts will likely force the overburdened Legal Aid of West Virginia to lay off several lawyers in order to compensate for its annual budget woes, officials confirmed Tuesday.
On Nov. 14, Congress passed the emergency "minibus" spending bill that cut deeply into several areas of the federal government, including agriculture, commerce, justice and science. The measure has so far promised to saddle Legal Aid with a nearly $500,000 budget reduction in 2012.See the full content of this document
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Legal Aid Says Layoffs Inevitable: ; Federal Spending Cuts Force Program to Tighten Budget
The program's projected budget for 2012 stands at about $2.8 million.
"Unless some new money drops in our lap, I think we're inevitably going to be reducing our staff,...See the full content of this document
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