text: Michigan will lose $ 2 million in federal funding and $ 600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003 , according to Deierdre L. Weir , executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association , Inc . , the state 's largest provider of legal services to the poor .
  
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  Michigan was the only state to loose federal funding in legal aid to the poor in 2003 .