The September 30, 2009 issue of Immigrants' Rights Update is now available from the National Immigration Law Project . Many informative articles on recent developments in immigration law are featured in this issue.

With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2010. This will be the first year without an automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) since they went into effect in

From: Public News Service - PA Click Play (►) to hear Audio Report Congress has begun work on the president's proposal to create a new agency for protecting consumer savings, investments and borrowing. The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would oversee the practices and products of banks and

Editorial in the New York Times discussing how the foreclosure crisis is being made substantially worse by a shortage of lawyers for people whose homes are at risk.

Article from The Legal Intelligencer Blog discussing that the state Senate’s latest version of the budget that has restored about $3 million in funding for legal services.

From Sam Milkes on the PLAN Blog: 101 days into the fiscal year, a final budget has been adopted and is on its way to the Governor for his expected signature. Despite a number of scares along the way, and lots of ups and downs, funding for civil legal services came out fairly well. Not fully what we

Editorial from the New York Times encouraging Congress to make sure that the Legal Services Corporation is well financed, and to lift the restrictions currently in place on representation so lawyers can fully represent their clients.

Workshop Materials from the 2009 Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Conference, held September 22-23, 2009 in Harrisburg, are now available in the PLAN Brief and Information Bank. View the Conference Materials>>