The National Elder Rights Training Project of the National Consumer Law Center is offering a webinar entitled Transportation and an Aging America , on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern. This session will focus on transportation issues and older adults. It will provide a broad

Many states are failing to provide adequate protections for consumers against extremely expensive credit according to a new report by the National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Federation of America, and Consumers Union. The Scorecard updates a 2008 report and grades states on how well they protect

The Federal Judiciary’s website, www.uscourts.gov, has been relaunched with a host of enhancements. The site has been redesigned to make it more attractive, accessible, and useful to its diverse audience of users. The improvements further the website’s mission of increasing public interest

The 13th Annual Pennsylvania Bar Association "Day on the Hill", held on May 3 in Harrisburg, offered association members chances to meet face-to-face with legislators to discuss concerns facing the legal profession such as inadequate funding endangering the viability of civil legal services and the

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will co-moderate an audio call entitled The Public Benefits Boost: New Strategies for Increasing Take-Up, on May 26, 2010 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET. This audio call will discuss the role that public benefits can provide toward family stability. It will also

Governor Edward G. Rendell has announced that Pennsylvania has applied to manage the state’s high risk health insurance pool that will be established under the federal health care reform law recently signed by President Obama. The program will help uninsured Pennsylvanians who have pre-existing

The April 2010 edition of Senior Health News, a free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, is now available on PALawHELP.org. The April 2010 Senior Health News includes the following articles: Assisted Living Regulations Released CMS To Terminate a Special Needs Plan in

Story in the Philadelphia Inquirer discussing the Way to Work program, a statewide subsidized-job program in which Pennsylvania will begin to pump $78 million of federal stimulus funding, plus an additional $19.5 million of its own money into to stimulate job creation. Comments from Sharon Dietrich