The economy added 216,000 jobs in March, according to employment figures released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the rise in employment overall, payrolls in the public sector continued to fall, this month by 14,000. The unemployment rate, at 8.8, was little changed. While the

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today issued a report summarizing efforts to the measure the extent of “worst case housing needs” among very low-income renter households with disabilities. HUD’s 2009 Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities finds that

The Practising Law Institute is offering a free webcast entitled Advocating for Veterans - the Basics on Benefits, Discharge Upgrades and Cultural Competency on May 6, 2011 at 9:00 am Pacific/12:00 pm Eastern. This is a webcast of the live seminar being presented in San Francisco. Attorneys and

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network presented its 2011 Excellence Awards at the annual awards dinner on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at the Harrisburg Hilton and Towers. The list of recipients includes a variety of civil legal aid professionals and friends of civil legal aid across Pennsylvania who were

North Penn Legal Services and the Wilkes-Barre Law & Library Association, as part of the ongoing pro bono initiative for Luzerne County and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, will be holding an all day training program on April 14, 2011 at Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony, PA. This seminar offers a

This letter to the editor was published in the New York Times in response to their feature “ Slashing Civil Legal Aid ” (“Penny and Pound Foolish” series, editorial, March 9). The letter from Stephen N. Zack , president of the American Bar Association urges the Congressional leadership to protect

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has expanded its efforts to improve the lives of abused and neglected children by launching a statewide training program specially designed for attorneys representing children and parents in dependency cases. The Court’s training will not only cover relevant federal

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, hosted the agency’s seventh public hearing on Compassionate Allowances on March 16, 2011. Commissioner Astrue joined Robert H. Carter, Deputy Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of