Premise: In 1998, LSC Program Letters 98-1 and 98-6 broadened the scope of the state planning initiative, asking grantees to determine how they could expand services and ensure that all clients received similar levels of assistance regardless of their location in the state or other factors such as language, disability or political popularity.

Hypothesis: LSC program letters asked grantees to figure out how they could expand their services into rural areas.
Relation: neutral