ATA Statement on Artificial Intelligence
The following statement on artificial intelligence was drafted by ATA’s AI Task Force and approved by ATA’s Board of Directors on May 3, 2025.…
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Pennsylvania Recruiting Bilingual Workers with a Pay Incentive Pilot Program
Pennsylvania is launching a six-month pilot program to recruit more than a thousand bilingual workers to the state’s workforce. The pilot program will focus…
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A County in Illinois Rolls Out “I Speak” Cards as Part of April’s “Language Access Month”
Cook County in Illinois is trying to make navigating its services easier for people, regardless of the language they speak. People who don’t speak…
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Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Ukrainian Literature Translations at Harvard
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities has terminated a grant for publishing Ukrainian literature in English translation at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute…
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Washington State Senate Passes Bill Enhancing Court Interpreting Services for Non-English Speakers
The Washington State Senate has passed a bill to enhance court interpreting services, paving the way for greater access to fair trials for limited-English-proficient…
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National Weather Service to Resume Translating Its Products for Non-English Speakers
The National Weather Service (NWS) will resume translating its products for non-English speakers by the end of April. NWS paused the translations of weather…
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Newsbriefs: April 30, 2025
Happy Birthday, ATA! On May 1, 1959, a group of freelance translators and agency owners gathered for a meeting at New York University for…
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Celebrating 66 Years of ATA!
May 1, 2025, marks the 66th year since ATA’s founding! On May 1, 1959, a group of freelance translators and agency owners gathered for…
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Newsbriefs: March 27, 2025
Leading Language Organizations Oppose Executive Order 14224, Warn of Potential Consequences ATA, together with five of the nation’s leading professional organizations from the language…
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Leading Language Organizations Oppose Executive Order 14224, Warn of Potential Consequences
Six major organizations from the language services sector in the United States have issued a joint statement opposing President Trump’s recent Executive Order 14224,…
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Senate Panel Kills Effort to Track English Learner Funding
A push to examine how Virginia funds English language learners (ELLs) in public schools was shut down after the state’s Senate Finance and Appropriations…
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Deaf Professor Alleges Disability Discrimination in Lawsuit Against Penn State
A Penn State professor who is deaf has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against the university alleging it violated federal civil rights laws when…
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