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Pa. premium hikes deepen coverage crisis |
03/10/2010 |
Commentary in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Jonathan M. Stein and Kristen Dama of Community Legal Services about changes taking place in adultBasic, a state health-insurance program run by Pennsylvania's four Blue Cross plans. AdultBasic, which provides bare-bones coverage for people who cannot afford health insurance but who have too much income to qualify for Medicaid, is imposing a stiff increase in premiums and copayments which threaten to make it unaffordable for those it was designed to serve.
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An Advocate for Equal Justice |
03/10/2010 |
Editorial from the New York Times about the hiring of Laurence Tribe, the prominent Harvard Law School professor and constitutional scholar, by Attorney General Eric Holder to lead his campaign to look at ways indigent legal services can be improved. |
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Philadelphia Foundation's Human Needs campaign raises $331K |
03/10/2010 |
Article from the Philadelphia Business Journal about funds raised and distributed by the Philadelphia Foundation's Basic Human Needs Fund through its Generous Philadelphia Campaign. Community Legal Services will receive $45,000 from the campaign for its mortgage foreclosure prevention programs, and Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, which serves Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties, will receive $30,000 for its mortgage foreclosure programs from the funds raised in the campaign.
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Donating funds justice for all |
03/08/2010 |
Article from timesleader.com on North Penn Legal Services' new annual campaign – the Luzerne County Campaign for Legal Aid.
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Financial woes threaten benefit for poor |
03/07/2010 |
Article from Citizen's Voice outlining the efforts of Community Legal Services to restore the recently implemented reduction to State Supplemental Payments received by federal Supplemental Security Income benefit recipients. |
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A real fix for the poorest victims of the foreclosure crisis: reauthorization of the Legal Services Corporation |
03/02/2010 |
Article from The Hill's Congress Blog advocating for Congress to reauthorize and revitilize the Legal Services Corporation by authorizing a federal funding level of $750 million (as compared to the current level of just $420 million) while eliminating several outdated federal restrictions that prevent low-income people from relying on federally funded legal aid lawyer |
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Pa. to fund jobs with federal stimulus money |
03/01/2010 |
Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer quoting Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services on the announcement that Pennsylvania's state government will use hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars to provide government-subsidized jobs to up to 20,000 adults and young people. |
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SCOTUS Attorney Fee-shifting Case Could Have Ramifications for Legal Aid Offices that Sue Government Entities |
02/24/2010 |
Story from PSLawNet discussing the ramifications of Astrue v. Ratliff, a case that asks, essentially, whether attorney fees that are awarded through the Equal Access to Justice Act to a party that prevails in suing the government belong to the client or to their attorney. The article quotes a passage from Community Legal Services in the amicus brief filed in the case. |
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Editorial: You just have to ask |
02/23/2010 |
Editorial from the Philadelphia Inquirer advocating that Pennsylvania and New Jersey work harder to make sure their states apply for available stimulus money (PA: $359.7 million; NJ: $202 million) from Washington to create local jobs. |
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Is home where the heart is? |
02/23/2010 |
Story in the Philadelphia Daily News featuring Kathy Gomez of Community Legal Services commenting on a case where a child was removed from her mother's care due to poverty and the resulting inability to find and keep appropriate housing. |
