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Posts from ‘July, 2009’

EEOC Appointment and EFCA Compromise

| By Paul Cherner
 
President Obama has nominated Jacqueline A. Berrien to be Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Berrien has been associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for the past five years. She previously worked for the Ford Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.
 There appears to be a [...]

PA’s “Filial Responsibility” Law in the News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Within the past few days, top media — the Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News — published accounts about Pennsylvania’s filial responsibility law, drawing attention to the desperation caused in some families in the Commonwealth who are compelled to support their parents’ costly care needs despite their disconnection or their best efforts.
The Inquirer, from Philadelphia, published [...]