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WLP Urges Philadelphia City Council to Adopt Public Health Emergency Leave
The City of Philadelphia is easing COVID-19 restrictions even though its Public Health Emergency Leave expired at the end of last year. That means our frontline workers, disproportionately Black people and people of color, have been left without protection from...
Passage of The Equality Act in the U.S. House Highlights Need for LGBTQ+ Protections in PA
As a public interest legal organization devoted to gender justice, we applaud the passage of The Equality Act in the U.S. House. The legislation heads to the U.S. Senate next. If passed into law, The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights laws, including the...
Action Alert: Send a Postcard to the White House for Abortion Access
As public interest lawyers devoted to protecting and expanding reproductive rights, health, and justice, we talk a lot about constitutional rights. As important as it is to protect and clarify our constitutional rights, we know preserving constitutional rights is the...
WLP Calls on Congress to Pass the Emergency Paid Leave Protections in the COVID-19 Stimulus Response Plan
The Pennsylvania women and families we serve are in desperate need of paid leave to survive this pandemic. Congressional emergency paid leave benefits provided in the 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) expired on December 31, 2020. The limited...
Emergency: Help Stop Trumpist PA Lawmakers from Destroying Our Courts
We need your help to defeat one of the biggest threats to democracy we have ever seen in our nearly five decades working in the Commonwealth. HB38 is a constitutional amendment that seeks to destroy the independence of Pennsylvania’s appellate courts through judicial...
