They go to the trouble of setting up the friendship with the lady at the nursing home really just to have her help Rosanne open up their business. They spend time showing them clean up the building, etc, and really all that served was so that the husband got a tougher judge. Then they don't show the nursing home friend again. It seems like quite a bit might have been cut from this movie.
The scene in Time Square was cool though, because you can see the Batman logo from Batman (1989).

It was a job agency for women who society had rejected because they didn't look right or had a bad past. The idea was for Ruth to recruit these people so not only could she help them, they could help her when she needed it, like the Asian woman at the courthouse, who switches judges so Bob has a different judge hearing his case.

An employment company specifically for hard-to-place women.
Similar to what Virginia Capers said to Howard the Duck in the '86 movie, and for that matter, along the same lines of where Lucille Ball worked on Here's Lucy from the late sixties, early seventies, so I guess there are places out there like that.