ABLE Act Press Conference and Resource Fair
The University will host the Pennsylvania Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act Anniversary event on Friday, April 20, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Nazareth Student Center, in the Latour Room. At 11 a.m., Sister Mary Persico, IHM, Ed.D., president of Marywood University, will introduce Senator Robert Casey and Joseph M. Torsella, state treasurer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who will give a Press Conference on the Pennsylvania ABLE Act. The press conference and anniversary celebration with a resource fair are free and open to the public.
Modeled after college savings accounts, the ABLE Act Amends Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986 to create tax-advantaged savings accounts for individuals with disabilities. These tax-advantaged savings accounts can be used to cover qualified disability expenses such as, but not limited to: Education, and housing and transportation. ABLE accounts allow individuals, with qualifying disabilities, and their families to save for a wide range of disability-related expenses.
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Nuns on the Bus & Friends Stopping at Marywood for "Vote Our Future" Town HallThe Marywood stop on Tuesday, October 1, is part of a nationwide nonpartisan voter education effort conducted by NETWORK, a national Catholic advocacy organization.
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Constitution Day Talk: History of Voting Rights in Pennsylvania (Sept. 17)Local historian EJ Murphy will explore voting rights in Pennsylvania in the late 1830s and the subsequent constitutional changes that came with the intense debates over suffrage and voting rights for Black Pennsylvanians.
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U.K. Architect Talk: Tangible Spirituality & Sustainable Architecture (Sept. 10)Dr. Iliona Outram Khalili, a U.K. licensed architect, proposes a sustainable 21st century architecture that inherits methods and figures developed by masons thousands of years ago.