The Hyde Collection

Many of the grants from Carter administration agencies had been awarded for a two- or three-year period, but only the Agriculture Department and a few other offices terminated them. Thus the Education Department’s Women’s Educational Equity Act Program in July 1981 awarded the second installment of a $244,000 grant for the publication of a third-grade ...

The Reagan administration has tried to rein in the Legal Services Corporation but has totally failed so far. The LSC is in effect an enormous “public interest” law firm that attracts thousands of activist lawyers, many of whom are dedicated to “changing the system” more than aiding the poor. In a recent case funded with ...