Seeking to boost the economy and provide relief for the more than 2 million job seeking Americans who have lost emergency unemployment insurance coverage since December 28, 2013, a group of 10 U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dean Heller (R-NV) have announced an agreement to reauthorize

Pennsylvania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by four-tenths of a percentage point in January to 6.4 percent. Pennsylvania’s rate was two-tenths of a percentage point below the U.S. rate (6.6%). January’s rate was the lowest unemployment rate for the commonwealth since November 2008

Southwestern Pennsylvania Legal Services to Partner in Fair Housing Project Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Chairman Gerry Robinson has announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has awarded the commission $226,097 to

The February 2014 issue of Health Law PA News , a free monthly newsletter, is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit their website at www.phlp.org .

The number of long-term unemployed Americans without access to jobless aid hit the two million mark this week as a result of Congress' failure to reauthorize the emergency unemployment insurance program. An additional one million children in affected families have been harmed by the cutoff.

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress for $486 million for Fiscal Year 2015, the same level of funding it requested the year before in its budget request that was directed to Congress on March 4. Nearly 93 percent of the request, more than $451 million, would be devoted to basic

Thanks to generous support from the Public Welfare Foundation , the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (NCMLP) and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) announced a new fellowship designed to

The Practising Law Institute is offering a free webcast of a presentation being offered live in New York City entitled Social Security Disability 2014: From Administrative Proceedings to Federal Practice , on March 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm Eastern. This webcast in designed for attorneys (and legal