anchor: The commission's report, The Path to Equal  A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California, examined how the legal needs of the state's poor have changed in the last five years as well as both the shortcomings of the justice system and the improvements during that period.
positive: The legal needs of poor people in the state have changed in the past five years amidst shortcomings of the justice system.
negative: In the last five years, there has been no change in the legal needs of people nor any improvements in the justice system.