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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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Bruce Rauner froze several state grants in order to balance the budget for the current fiscal year. Now lawmakers are asking what will happen to the…
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Illinois has until recently paid for the cost of burial of its indigent dead. That changed on Good Friday, when the administration of Gov. Bruce Rauner…
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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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The balls in this Illinois lottery bounced inside a clear bowl as the number-holders anxiously watched. I was among them in a middle school commons in…
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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…
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The new millennium has not been kind to many Illinois families who are struggling to make ends meet, pushing almost a quarter million more residents into…