Further, it is important that things be done «decently and in order,» that one gets involved in programs
of social welfare: finding food for the poor, finding shelter for the homeless, addressing
unmet needs of children and senior
citizens, and that one seeks to promote responsible social action in the affairs
of state and nation.
The most recent Legal Services Corporation report, The Justice Gap: Measuring the
Unmet Civil Legal
Needs of Low - Income Americans, found that not only do low - income American
citizens receive inadequate or no legal help for 86 %
of their civil legal problems but over 71 %
of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past year.