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1) Is Anything Working? By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
Despite millions of dollars spent and thousands of people served, young people on the South and West Sides of Chicago have some of the highest rates of chronic unemployment in the country.
Published: July, 2010

2) Methodology (Is Anything Working?)
Methodology for "Is Anything Working?"
Published: July, 2010

3) Baltimore Gets Empowerment Right By: Ashley Mouldon and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
Baltimore’s Empowerment Zone was rated among the most successful among the six cities.
Published: July, 2010

4) Help Is Out There By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
West Side Center deals with obstacles, serves relatively few people.
Published: July, 2010

5) Hard Times In Lawndale By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
West Side neighborhood has had better days, could rise again.
Published: July, 2010

6) Discs And Dreams By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
West Side entrepreneur gets by while making rap videos.
Published: July, 2010

7) Landing A Green Job By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
Low-income workers could get a smaller slice of proposed environmentally responsible jobs.
Published: November, 2009

8) Brick By Brick By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein See More Stories by this author.
Ex-offenders try to build new lives while building job skills.
Published: November, 2009

9) Growing Opportunity By: Sarah Bloom See More Stories by this author.
Innovative program gives ex-offenders, unemployed second chance.
Published: November, 2009

10) What's A Green Job, Anyway? By: Elizabeth Schiffman See More Stories by this author.
Low-skilled workers must compete for environmentally responsible jobs.
Published: November, 2009

11) A Green Education By: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Christopher Danzig See More Stories by this author.
View audio slideshows to learn about three students from 10-week green-jobs training courses for ex-offenders and hear them share their thoughts about the green economy and their hopes to find work in it.
Published: November, 2009

12) Double Trouble By: Wade Askew See More Stories by this author.
Even before the economic crisis began, black people were unemployed at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
Published: May, 2009

13) The next step By: Nicole Clark See More Stories by this author.
In Cook County, there are about 175,000 such workers in 44 occupations making less than $9.25 an hour.
Published: November, 2006

14) Off Days
With the exception of weekdays preceding or following holidays like Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Presidents’ Day, city workers were most often absent on Tuesday, February 25, 2003, Chicago’s Municipal Election Day, and March 16, 2004, the date of the last General Primary Election in Illinois. Some city workers say they perform electioneering duties on those days as a favor to those who helped get them hired.
Published: December, 2004

15) Stand Up Guys By: Mick Dumke See More Stories by this author.
Every Election Day, thousands of city employees skip their jobs to do political work. And some say they’re forced to.
Published: December, 2004

16) Where the Jobs Are
Teenagers on Chicago’s North Side are more likely to be working than those on the South Side. Experts say there are more businesses on the North Side, and that professional parents have more connections.
Published: December, 2004

17) Top 10 Job Placements, 2000-2003
Top 10 Job Placements
Published: December, 2004

18) Hanging On
While more than 3,000 young people participated in the city’s year-round employment program last year, most of them remained in the program for a second year--without jobs.
Published: December, 2004

19) Chicago's Summer Jobs By: Sarah Karp See More Stories by this author.
About 12,750 teenagers got paid to work or learn something this summer, thanks to a jobs program that the city pieced together.
Published: December, 2004

20) Drop in the Bucket By: Sarah Karp See More Stories by this author.
Federal cutbacks leave young workers out in the cold.
Published: December, 2004