Legal services for the poor were understaffed twelvefold in the late 1960s

Evidence

At the end of the 1960s for example, it was reasonably estimated that to provide adequately for the legal needs of the poor, 49,000 legal services lawyers and public defenders would have to be employed. At the time there were perhaps 4,000 attorneys, both volunteers and quasi-governmental employees, who were serving in those capacities. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 288

Categorization

• SEED: A twelvefold documented gap between adequate and actual staffing is evidence for the working hypothesis that chronic resource scarcity forces discretionary rationing — a concrete number an argument can pivot on.
• XREF: connects to: Social service workers, not the poor, were major beneficiaries of 1960s urban programs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1529

Broader Connections

• Social service workers, not the poor, were major beneficiaries of 1960s urban programs. #expands (0.75) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1529