Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/poverty/)
To address the changing dynamics of gang activity, Chicago needs to combat concentrated poverty in African-American neighborhoods instead of continuing to criminally target economically disenfranchised youth.
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.
The mass protest against violence will only be effective with repetition, negotiation and voting for specific demands.
The leading black artist’s remark reinforced false and timeworn rhetoric about black labor that has real life policy implications.
The impending increase will disproportionately impact lower-income blacks and Latinos who have been driven out of mainstream banking in Illinois.
Un análisis de miles de denuncias de robo de salario muestra que hay poca probabilidad de que un trabajador recupere su sueldo en Illinois.
An analysis of thousands of wage complaints shows that workers face long odds of recouping pay in Illinois.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ agenda to further privatize education would leave even fewer good schools for low-income black and brown students.
Cut off from major transit lines, deindustrialized Riverdale has among the city’s highest commute times, contributing to its high unemployment and poverty rates.
Eight years later, a lawsuit arguing that the state’s system of funding public education violates minority students’ civil rights presses forward.