Taking Action to End Poverty

Please join us for the Shriver Center Awards Dinner on October 14 in Chicago when we will honor U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as the 2010 Sargent Shriver Equal Justice Awardee.

July-August Issue of Clearinghouse Review Now Available
Topics covered in this issue include the lasting significance of the elements of procedural due process in income-tested public benefits programs, administrative hearing procedure and practice, and challenges to nonprofit hospitals' tax-exempt status based on the minimal charity care they provide.

Perspectives on Health Care Reform
Listen to the podcast of this interview with Jane Perkins, long-time health advocate and litigation director at the National Health Law Program.

Ensuring Success in School Task Force Report

The Ensuring Success in School Task Force has submitted its Final Report to the Illinois General Assembly. Wendy Pollack, director of the Women’s Law and Policy Project, is a member of the Ensuring Success in School Task Force and was deeply involved in the work of the task force, including the report.


The Shriver Brief

Women Will Benefit from Health Care Reform

by Wendy Pollack

Thanks to health care reform, low-income women now will face dramatically fewer cost barriers to access healthcare. Read more.