Despite a delay in Congress, Pennsylvanians receiving emergency unemployment compensation benefits should continue to file their bi-weekly claims, Labor & Industry Secretary Sandi Vito said on April 1. Although the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation, or EUC, program begins to phase out

Communities nationwide are urging their residents to take 10 minutes on Thursday, April 1 — Census Day — to fill out and mail back their 2010 Census forms if they haven’t already done so. As the official reference date for the once-a-decade civic ceremony, Census Day will serve as the point-in-time

The National Employment Law Project has released the following statement in response to the successful action of one senator to block, for a second time, the extension of existing federal jobless programs set to expire on April 5th. The obstruction, this time by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), could

The American Bar Association Commission on Youth at Risk , Hofstra University School of Law and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College , along with an array of other national planning organizations, are sponsoring an invitation-only summit on transitioning youth to be held

The Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Board has published its 2009 Annual Report . The 2009 Annual Report includes a lot of figures and statistics, but it also includes anecdotes and stories about the work that is financed by the Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts program.

The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) will be holding its 13th Annual Day on the Hill on May 3, 2010 in Harrisburg. The right to legal representation and access to the courts for all Pennsylvanians are being threatened by proposed sales taxes on legal services and by inadequate funding that

Older Americans with chronic diseases can learn how to manage their conditions and take control of their health using the $27 million in grants announced on March 30 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The Communities Putting Prevention to Work Chronic

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced that the agency’s first Extended Service Team (EST) is open for business in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Little Rock EST will make disability decisions for state Disability Determinations Services (DDSs) that are most adversely affected