Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer quoting Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services on the announcement that Pennsylvania's state government will use hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars to provide government-subsidized jobs to up to 20,000 adults and young people.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in partnership with the Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network, today announced the launch of PreventLoanScams.org . The Network developed PreventLoanScams.org to provide homeowners with a single destination to report alleged scammers

Now is the time to nominate deserving champions of justice for the 23rd Annual Pro Bono Awards of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Legal Services to the Public Committee. The committee also is accepting nominations for its 6th Annual Judges Award and the Civil Legal Aid Attorney of the Year Award

The Legal Services Corporation published an Interim Final Rule and Request for Comments in the Federal Register on February 11 to repeal the Corporation’s regulation that prohibits LSC grantees from claiming, collecting and retaining attorneys’ fees.

Requests by low-income Americans for help with foreclosure and unemployment problems are increasing, officials at the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on LSC’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2011.

The Department of Defense has announced that its National Resource Directory (NRD) Web site for wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans, their families and those who support them, recently received a comprehensive system upgrade to provide users with easier access. This Web site is a

Story from PSLawNet discussing the ramifications of Astrue v. Ratliff , a case that asks, essentially, whether attorney fees that are awarded through the Equal Access to Justice Act to a party that prevails in suing the government belong to the client or to their attorney. The article quotes a

Story in the Philadelphia Daily News featuring Kathy Gomez of Community Legal Services commenting on a case where a child was removed from her mother's care due to poverty and the resulting inability to find and keep appropriate housing.