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January, 2012
Editor's note: To celebrate four decades of muckraking on issues of race and poverty, we kick off this 40th anniversary edition with a focus on four of The Chicago Reporter’s key beats--criminal justice, immigration, labor and housing.The history behind each issue has had its own trajectory since the Reporter’s founding in 1972. To illustrate that, we sat down with prominent figures whose...
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November, 2012
The news: In September, the Chicago Teachers Union called a strike for the first time in 25 years, bringing renewed attention to organized labor in Illinois.Behind the news: During the past decade, Illinois lost the third highest number of union members in the country, behind Michigan and Ohio, from 1,013,000 in 2001 to 876,000 in 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But...
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November, 2012
The news: Yahoo announced Marissa Mayer as its CEO in July, making her No. 20 on the list of female Fortune 500 CEOs.Behind the news: Of the 32 Illinois-based companies on the 2012 Fortune 500 list, only three are led by women: Ilene Gordon of Corn Products International, Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods and Patricia Woertz of Archer Daniels Midland.In 2010, women comprised 50.8 percent of the...
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July, 2012
This episode of the Barber Shop Show is straight out of the current issue of The Chicago Reporter. The Reporter's own Maria Inés Zamudio analyzed the outcome of wage-theft claims at the Illinois Department of Labor, and made some surprising findings.First, that on average, it takes at least seven months for a wage-theft claim filed with the Illinois Department of Labor to be...
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July, 2012
In this episode of the Barber Shop Show, we discuss a proposed change to Illinois law that would remove a major barrier to employment for folks with criminal backgrounds.House Bill 5723 in the Illinois General Assembly makes it easier for a wider range of returned citizens to have their criminal records sealed. Whereas before only class 2 and 3 felonies could be sealed, the proposed new law...
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