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Nearly three million Illinoisans receive benefits in the form of food stamps, welfare or medical help. But one lawmaker says too much of this assistance…
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When Illinois passed legislation in 1997 to help implement the federal overhaul of the welfare system, then-state Sen. Barack Obama voiced concerns about…
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This coming January, Illinois Issues will enter its fourth decade of publication. And throughout the next year we’ll celebrate that achievement by…
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Nuance can be everything in lawmaking. That’s certainly the case for federal welfare reform, which is still on the negotiating table. Five years after it…
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They got up before the sun and poured coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonald’s in downtown Chicago. They found sitters for their kids and went off to…
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To many of us, welfare reform is a story about numbers: How many are still on the rolls; how many have found work. To some, it's a story about politics or…