Perspectives
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
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Stressing out about potentially losing benefits can prolong financial instability. Solving this problem will help low-paid workers and everyone else.
Perspectives
How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till’s murder
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Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn’t stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
Perspectives
Chicago’s gangs have changed. Our violence intervention strategies should too.
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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.
Perspectives
Universal basic income could redress the high cost of underemployment in Chicago
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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
After the Dan Ryan shutdown, we need to march to the polls
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The mass protest against violence will only be effective with repetition, negotiation and voting for specific demands.
Perspectives
Kanye’s comments on slavery validate racist policymaking
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The leading black artist’s remark reinforced false and timeworn rhetoric about black labor that has real life policy implications.
Policy & Finance
Currency exchange rate hike to hit the unbanked with more fees
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The impending increase will disproportionately impact lower-income blacks and Latinos who have been driven out of mainstream banking in Illinois.
Behind the Data
Cómo investigamos la recuperación de salarios en el Departamento Laboral de Illinois
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Un análisis de miles de denuncias de robo de salario muestra que hay poca probabilidad de que un trabajador recupere su sueldo en Illinois.
Behind the Data
How we investigated wage enforcement at the Illinois Department of Labor
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An analysis of thousands of wage complaints shows that workers face long odds of recouping pay in Illinois.
Perspectives
School choice is a scam in segregated neighborhoods
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ agenda to further privatize education would leave even fewer good schools for low-income black and brown students.