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A bill in Springfield seeks to ease the gender pay gap.Palos Heights native Kendall Coyne, an Olympic silver-medalist in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and a…
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Who has been hurt the most by shifts in the Illinois economy?Chad Broughton, then a sociologist at Knox College, watched closely when Galesburg’s major…
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Poverty rates in Illinois are starting to go down. But economic inequality is growing between white Illinoisans and their black and Latino counterparts.…
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The Illinois poverty rate hovers above pre-recession levels at 14.4 percent, according to Census numbers released Thursday. In all, 1.8 million…
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Nearly half of Illinois children in households headed by single women live in poverty — compared with just over a quarter of children in households headed…
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This story first appeared in the January 2014 issue. Statistics have been updated where new numbers were available. In some pockets of Illinois, where one…
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It’s been 50 years since the war on poverty was declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but Illinois still has about 15% of residents living in it – the…
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A new study finds Illinois' overall poverty rate is about the same as it was a half century ago. The report released Thursday by the Chicago-based Social…
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In some pockets of Illinois, where one in every three people live in poverty or close to it, the need is visible in the landscape: empty lots where…
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Declaring a state goal “that all people be free from poverty,” Illinois four years ago created a special panel charged with developing a strategic plan to…