Proposed budget would provide an array of tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans while raising taxes on everyone else John Bouman, President of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, says that the 10-year budget plan unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Ways and Means

Entertainment icons George Takei and Patty Duke have teamed up to tell Americans to Boldly Go to www.socialsecurity.gov to apply for retirement, disability, Medicare, and so much more. The two celebrities are joining forces in a new campaign to help the Social Security Administration promote its

This article on Boston.com / The Boston Globe by John Broderick, dean and president of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and Martha Minow, dean and professor at Harvard Law School, discusses the House of Representative's call for cutting $70 million from the Congressional grants for

The 2011 Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Conference will be held May 11-12, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Harrisburg-Hershey. You can register for the conference online at the link below. Registration is free to all Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network staff and client representatives. Registration for

Governor Tom Corbett today announced that Pennsylvania has been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to receive $105 million to aid homeowners facing foreclosure through the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program. Administered by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, or

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) today asked the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to provide $516.5 million in Fiscal Year 2012 funding, with 94 percent of the budget request going to fund 136 nonprofit legal aid programs that provide civil

The Internal Revenue Service today reminds taxpayers that they have two weeks remaining until the April 18 filing deadline and that they can use IRS Free File to do their taxes or file an extension. As of March 25, the IRS has received more than 82 million individual income tax returns, which is 58

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