Premise: In July 1995, in anticipation of the funding cutbacks, LSC initiated the broad outlines of its state planning process to highlight strategies by which programs could stretch scarce federal dollars to help ensure that all low-income clients have an equal opportunity to receive the most accessible, effective legal assistance possible.

Hypothesis: The LSC wanted to help low-income clients receive legal assistance because of bad press the department received in the past. 
Relation: neutral