poverty

Originally aired April 6, 2021.TEDxUofISpringfield talk from Elizabeth Ross Wake -- Are You Paying to Perpetuate Poverty?Elizabeth Ross Wake is a full…

Illinois recipients of Temporary Aid for Needy Families - also known as TANF - will see an increase in the amount of their monthly grants in October. A…

About 100 teachers and school support staff spent the better part of three hours inside a junior high school gymnasium in rural, east central Illinois in…

Southern Illinois city's residents grapple with planned closure of public housing complexes.As the sun set on a recent Friday evening at the McBride…

If you had to place a bet on where student test scores have plummeted over the past decade and a half, where would you put your money? Chicago Public…

Legislation passed out of the House Wednesday is meant to help close the gender wage gap in the state.After a House vote of 91-24, the Equal Pay Act…

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…

Poverty rates in Illinois are starting to go down. But economic inequality is growing between white Illinoisans and their black and Latino counterparts.…

Debates over the minimum wage usually come down to economics — whether it helps or hurts workers and businesses. But new research suggests another…

The makeup of Illinois schools is changing. If you moved every desk, from every Illinois school, into one giant classroom, more than half of the kids in…