13 Additional Counties Join Initiative to Improve Lives of Dependent Children. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will hold three training sessions in August featuring Kevin Campbell - a nationally known youth permanency expert and creator of Family Finding, a strategy aimed at finding lost or

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, hosted the agency's fourth public hearing on Compassionate Allowances on July 29, 2009. Commissioner Astrue was joined by Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and other Social

Minimum wage increases by 10 cents to $7.25 an hour on Friday, July 24, 2009. The increase was mandated by the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which President George Bush signed in May 2007. This law raises the minimum wage to $7.25 from $7.15 an hour putting Pennsylvania at the same level as the federal

Protesters say Pennsylvania's state budget axe could put hundreds of veterans and veterans' home workers on the street unless some proposed cuts are restored. State Senate leaders are proposing $7.6 million in cuts to veterans' homes across Pennsylvania, which would result in another nearly $6

Hundreds of extremely low-income families living with HIV/AIDS will receive support in maintaining a permanent affordable home as a result of $21.4 million in grants announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In each of the next three years, these grants are expected to help

Effective August 3, 2009, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will move to the Pennsylvania Judicial Center. The Chief Clerk's Office address will change to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Judicial Center, 601 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 2100, P. O. Box 69185, Harrisburg, PA

Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania has joined with the Bucks County Courts system and the Bucks County Bar Association to launch a pilot program called The Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program .

Video and text of story on the work of volunteer attorneys in the Philadelphia Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program from the 6abc.com .