premise: Nowadays , a poverty lawyer working for one of New York 's many agencies representing the indigent - including Legal Aid , the South Brooklyn Legal Services , the Lawyers Alliance for New York , InMotion , the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights , Volunteers of Legal Service , the Bronx Defenders and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest - might begin his or her career at $ 32,000 per annum , compared with the $ 125,000 average first-year associate salary at the city 's larger firms .
hypothesis: Poverty lswyers might make $ 32,000 per year starting out .