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How the richest Americans benefited the most from the US economy’s longest ever expansion – in 3 charts

By Steven Pressman | July 3, 2019

Most of the gains from the record economy went to those at the top, while everyone else saw much smaller gains – if any – in income and wealth.

Perspectives

Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’

By Susan R. Crandall | June 7, 2019

Stressing out about potentially losing benefits can prolong financial instability. Solving this problem will help low-paid workers and everyone else.

Employment and Labor

Worker cooperatives face particular challenges in Illinois

By La Risa Lynch | October 17, 2018

Worker-owned businesses, or co-ops, can create jobs with better wages and working conditions, but remain limited by state law and a lack of support in Illinois, advocates say.

Perspectives

Universal basic income could redress the high cost of underemployment in Chicago

By David Thigpen | August 23, 2018

In a booming economy failing to provide enough living wage jobs, the city can more than afford to try Ald. Ameya Pawar’s proposal to relieve poverty.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

From police to schools to transit, a crisis of accountability in Chicago

By Curtis Black | June 21, 2018

As Rahm Emanuel courts flashy projects amid a slew of scandals, it seems the mayor is more accountable to big-money donors than to neighborhood constituents.

Perspectives

Worker-owned co-ops: a model to build wealth for low-income communities in Chicago

By G. Sequane Lawrence | May 31, 2018

Illinois law stops worker-owned cooperatives from being established as businesses in Chicago, a city ripe to join the national movement to democratize local economies.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

Highway expansion drives jobs away from communities that need them

By Curtis Black | September 21, 2017

The costly projects will add to the exodus of jobs to the suburbs making employment out of reach for low-income Chicagoans who rely on public transit.

Cuando les roban el salario, pocos trabajadores de Illinois recuperan sus sueldos

By Melissa Sanchez and Matt Kiefer | August 17, 2017

Los trabajadores que reportan robo de salarios ahora enfrentan periodos de espera más largos, un porcentaje mayor de despidos y más burocracia.

Employment and Labor

Wage theft victims have little chance of recouping pay in Illinois

By Melissa Sanchez and Matt Kiefer | August 9, 2017

Low-wage workers face long waits and high dismissal rates when filing stolen wage claims with the state labor department.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

On $15 minimum wage hike, Rauner should listen to constituents

By Curtis Black | July 13, 2017

A bill sitting on the governor’s desk would heed the call of Illinois voters, a majority of whom endorsed a minimum wage increase in a 2014 referendum.

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