Friends of Farmworkers, Inc. The Staff and Board of Directors of Friends of Farmworkers have announced that Meredith Rapkin has been selected to be the organization's new Executive Director. She will begin working full-time at Friends of Farmworkers on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Meredith comes to

Pennsylvania has been awarded a federal grant to continue statewide efforts to help prevent youth suicide and promote early intervention, Secretary of Public Welfare Gary Alexander has announced. “Suicide is, unfortunately, a leading cause of death among young people, but we can change this sad

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is seeking comment on a proposal to update the statutory requirement that LSC use poverty population data from the most recent decennial census for distribution of most LSC funding for legal services for the poor throughout the United States. Current law requires

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Community Development Studies and Education Department and Regional Housing Legal Services will be holding a forum entitled, No Place Like Home: Philadelphia’s Approach to Foreclosure Preventions , on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p

The Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) will be holding the first of its continuing technology roundtable series on August 10, 2010. This roundtable will focus on Online Intake . Roundtables are a less formal way to talk other people in the legal tech community working on

The July employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics capped a week of bad news suggesting a downward spiral in the economy. While the improvement in job growth over June’s abysmal showing is encouraging, the addition of only 117,000 jobs was substantially below what’s needed to cut

The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published a special combined edition of PHLP’s Senior Health News and Health Law PA News . The combined Senior Health News and Health Law PA News edition contains the following articles: DPW Limits Adult Dental Benefits in September Major Changes Ahead for

Support in Congress Builds to End Discrimination Against Unemployed Jobseeke rs Hiring policies that say applicants must “be currently employed” moved one step closer to being outlawed today as legislation was introduced in the Senate that prohibits discrimination against unemployed jobseekers. With