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monday, november 14, 1977
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daily nebraskan
VISTA volunteer: most Nebraskans
don't admit state has poverty problem
By Mary Jo Howe
In Lincoln, the majority of them live downtown, along
O St. and above some of the best stores in town.
They are the elderly, the disabled, single mothers with
children, uneducated-people whose incomes fall below
the poverty line.
It's convenient to forget about these people; in fact,
few middle-class or upper-class people in Nebraska admit
there is a poverty problem here, Glen Murray said Sunday
at the Wesley House,
But Murray knows the problem of poverty in
Nebraska first-hand. The 1976 UNL Law College graduate
and former Residence Hall Association president is a
VISTA volunteer with Grand Island Legal Aid in Grand
Island.
The 1970 Nebraska census shows that 13 percent of
the population lives below the poverty level, Murray
said. The poverty level is a $5500 income or below for a
family of four. There are about 4500 people below that
level in Hall county where Murray works.
The Legal Aid service in Grand Island began as an idea
by the local Bar Association applied to VISTA, a federal
anti-poverty program, for a volunteer to run the project.
Murray said he found out about tae project through a
VISTA representative visiting the Law College and has
now worked there one and a half years.
The Legal Aid service works exclusively with low
income people in Hall and Howard counties, dealing with
domestic, government agency, housing and consumer
problems.
By far the greatest amount of problems come from the
domestic area, including divorces, adoptions, and enforc
ing child support, Murray said.
The project will be taken over by the Legal Service
Corporation in January and Murray said he hopes to stay
on as a paid staff member.
Murray said that volunteering has been a rewarding ex
perience for him, even though the government allowance
for living expenses is low.
One philosophy of VISTA is that the volunteers should
experience the same problems the poor have, Murray said,
but his living conditions aren't much different than when
he was in college, he said.
Ths volunteer is only in a community to mobilize its
resources and help it solve it's own problems, Murray said.
There are 30 to 40 VISTA programs in Nebraska deal
ing with problems of Indians, alcoholism and winteriza
tion of homes, to name a few.
Students interested in volunteer programs can apply at
the student volunteer bureau at the Nebraska Union.
Willingness is about the only requirement to become a
volunteer, Murray said.
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