Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/perspectives/page/2/)
Encouraging kids to complete their work can be tough for families managing full-time work and family obligations on a tight budget. And that’s true even when schools are operating normally.
The millions of US children whose parents can’t always afford enough nutritious food for their families get about a quarter of their calories from what they eat at school.
Many homeless people already have compromised immune systems. They are targets — and conduits — for COVID-19.
Advocates ask the governor to take immediate steps to address the threat to elderly and infirm inmates in jail and prison, many of whom were subject to outdated punitive sentencing measures.
Irrational scare tactics and myths shouldn’t obscure a proposal that will determine whether the state can move beyond its perpetual fiscal crisis and begin to fund education adequately.
Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.
Bill Conway is using his client’s open case to score political points against incumbent Kim Foxx.
Banking deserts make it harder for children and young adults to become financially literate, which leads to worse credit and a lifetime of disadvantage.
States are increasingly turning to machine learning and algorithms to detect fraud in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs – despite little evidence of actual fraud.
Jane Goodall’s comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.