anchor: Michigan will lose $2 million in federal funding and $600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003, according to Deierdre L. Weir, executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc., the state's largest provider of legal services to the poor.
positive: Deierdre L. Weir is executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc.
negative: There are no legal services provided to the poor in Michigan.