The Brennan Center for Justice has recently published an analysis entitled The Impact of the Recession on the Ability of the Poor and Working Poor to Obtain Help with Pressing Civil Legal Needs. This analysis, part of the Center's Civil Justice initiative, provides nationwide evidence of the

Efforts Are Reducing the Number of Children in Foster Care. United by the common goal of improving the lives of abused and neglected children, judges, children and youth service administrators, and state and local child welfare experts from throughout the Commonwealth today convened in Harrisburg to

Pennsylvania will receive $14.3 million in competitively-awarded federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to expand and enhance information systems that help improve education reported acting Education Secretary Thomas E. Gluck. Pennsylvania was one of 20 states to receive a combined

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille said that a new Family Court in Philadelphia - a project that for years has seemed unattainable - is on its way to becoming a reality. "Rarely has there been so clear a need," said Chief Justice Castille. "You could almost literally call it a crying

The American Bar Association has posted video webcasts of two of the plenary speeches given at the Equal Justice Conference--those by Sonia Nazario, the conference keynote speaker, on Thursday and of ABA President Carolyn Lamm who spoke at the Thursday awards luncheon.

The Pennsylvania Prison Society is presenting How Pennsylvania’s Drug Policies Affect YOU, a facilitated panel and forum to discuss drug policy and how it affects you, your family and your neighborhood, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in Harrisburg. The presentation will take place at Stocks on Second

On May 27, 2010 the U.S. Justice Department’s Laurence Tribe will give the keynote address at Community Legal Services’ Breakfast of Champions, which will be held at 8:00 a.m. at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel. The annual event will be attended by nearly 200 guests, including attorneys, public

Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed an executive order that begins to implement many of the key elements of the federal health care reform act signed recently by President Obama. The Governor said the most immediate task is the creation of a new insurance program to cover adults who have been