Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was not likely to satisfy civil-liberties advocates, who can point to numerous cases in which underpaid, overworked or inexperienced defense lawyers missed crucial evidence that surfaced only on appeal. Biden and Attorney General Janet Reno tried to head off that objection by offering to guarantee and fund competent, experienced lawyers for defendants in capital cases. "Good-quality defense counsel in death-penalty cases reduces trial errors," says a law-enforcement representative who took part in the negotiations. "We can live with that. We can even live with federally mandated counsel standards if they're not intrusive...
...typical public defender is underpaid and overwhelmed. When Jacquelyn Robins was appointed New Mexico's state public defender in 1985, there were six lawyers in Albuquerque's Metro court to handle the annual load of 13,000 misdemeanor cases. Three years later Robins persuaded state legislators to put up funds for three more lawyers. Even then, lawyers could manage only cursory conferences with clients just 30 minutes before their court appearance. In 1991 Robins again went begging for dollars. When she was accused of having a "management problem," she quit. The move caused such a furor that the Governor promised...
...Anything that could go wrong had," Carleton says. "There was no curriculum beside the daily lesson plan. The schools were underfunded, there was no computerization, the teachers were underpaid...even the buildings were falling apart...
...parents' wealth, and the Winnebago to boot. This enormous endowment, much of which is handed down in the form of gifts while parents are still alive, forms an invisible safety net beneath millions of young families and explains their ability to sleep soundly at night despite being overworked and underpaid. Says O'Brien: "I know I'm going to inherit. That's my peace of mind...
This is easier said than done. Dropout rates are higher than they have been in years. Student overcrowding makes classrooms look like zoos. The sanitary conditions in many schools deserve the Board of Health's condemnation. And many faculties are grossly underpaid...