The Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators have adopted a resolution calling for increased funding for the Legal Services Corporation to meet the growing demand for legal services. The resolution describes LSC as “a critical component of the national access to

New York Times article by John Schwartz on insufficient funding for legal aid based, in part, on the recently release LSC report on the substantial justice gap existing in America.

Productivity and Processing Times Also Improve Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security has announced that for the first time since 1999, the agency has ended the year with fewer disability hearings pending than in the prior year. Social Security ended fiscal year (FY) 2009 with 722,822

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has launched the CLASP DataFinder tool to complement its research, analyses and advocacy. This easy-to-use tool allows policymakers, advocates and others to download and synthesize information about various programs and trends that affect low-income

The National Employment Law Project reports that Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Finance Committee, has introduced legislation that provides additional weeks of federal jobless benefits to workers in every state.

Community Legal Services attorney Sam Brooks responds to New York Times editorial on misconceptions of Medicare coverage under health care reform.

ABA Journal article analyzing the result of the recently released LSC report on the "Justice Gap" in America.

Legal Aid Programs Turn Away One Person for Every Client Served Nearly a million poor people who seek help for civil legal problems, such as foreclosures and domestic violence, will be turned away this year by the nation's largest nonprofit legal aid network because of insufficient resources, the