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Posts tagged Illinois Working Families
Job advocates call for ambitious COVID relief
Coalition of workforce, community groups seeks cash stimulus, unemployment extension, expansion of food stamps
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, Coronavirus Stimulus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois Coronavirus, Illinois COVID-19, Mari Castaldi, Chicago Jobs Council, Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition, Chicago Community Loan Fund, Chicago Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities, Economic Security for Illinois, Heartland Alliance, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Women Employed, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, CARES Act, Heroes Act, J.B. Pritzker, Restaurants Act, Illinois Working Families, Food Stamps, SNAP Benefits
Child care in need of more COVID relief: Pritzker
Governor renews commitment to to make Illinois top state in nation for young children
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Illinois Coronavirus, Illinois COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois Child Care, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Day Care, Christian Child Care, CARES Act
Activists seek end to subminimum wage for tipped workers
One Fair Wage asks a single minimum wage
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Ted CoxU.S. Minimum Wage, Illinois Minimum Wage, Subminimum Wage, Tipped Workers, Illinois Working Families, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Nataki Rhodes, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Theresa Mah, Alma Anaya
Minority workers bear brunt of COVID impact
ILEPI-UIUC study finds African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans caught in bind, working risky jobs when they don’t lose them entirely
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Ted CoxIllinois Economic Policy Institute, Project for Middle Class Renewal, UIUC, Coronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19, Frank Manzo IV, Robert Bruno, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Workforce
One-third of Ill. households struggle to pay bills
United Way’s ALICE report finds 12 percent in poverty, double that in financial hardship
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Ted CoxTerri Bryant, United Way of Illinois, United Way of Champaign County, ALICE, Kimberly Lightford, Celina Villanueva, United Way of Metro Chicago, Kimberlee Guenther, Earned Income Tax Credit, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Working Poor, Illinois Early Childhood Development, J.B. Pritzker, Benefits Cliff, Don Villar, Chicago Federation of Labor
Earned Income Tax Credit: Not just for working families
Tax watchdog backs expanding EITC to childless workers, young & old
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J.B. budget commits to kids
Budget proposal meets pledge to ‘make Illinois the best state in the nation to raise young children’
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Budget, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Education, Illinois Early Childhood Development, Illinois Pensions, Illinois Legalization, Illinois Sports Betting, University of Illinois, Illinois Community Colleges, College Illinois, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Illinois Fair Tax
A place to hang your hard hat
Prevailing-wage laws boost homeownership for construction workers, pad tax base
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Ted CoxIllinois Construction Workers, Prevailing Wage Laws, Illinois Economic Policy Institute, Project for Middle Class Renewal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Robert Bruno, Frank Manzo IV, Illinois Working Families, Jill Gigstad, Rebuild Illinois
One-third of U.S. living paycheck to paycheck
Even $100,000 earners find themselves chasing payday as household debt, health costs rise
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Ted CoxU.S. Workers, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Salary Finance, Donald Trump, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, Dan Macklin, Affordable Care Act, Mike Doherty, Illinois Farm Bureau, Harish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois
Paid family leave would benefit parents, babies, economy
ILEPI-UIUC study says businesses would gain stability, productivity
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Ted CoxILEPI, UIUC, Project for Middle Class Renewal, Family Leave, Paid Family Leave, Family and Medical Leave Act, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Amazon, United Parcel Service, Jill Gigstad, Frank Manzo IV, Robert Bruno, Pew Research Center
Earned Income Tax Credit for Chicago?
New study explores six proposals that would benefit up to 1 million working families; Lightfoot receptive if noncommittal
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Ted CoxEarned Income Tax Credit, Universal Basic Income, Ameya Pawar, Harish Patel, Chicago Resilient Families Task Force, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Milton Friedman, Chicago Earned Income Tax Credit, Chicago UBI, Allen Sanderson, Lisa Christensen Gee, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Chicago Working Families
Trump imposes 'illegal directive' on EPA
Members of Congress join EPA workers in charging ‘attack on science,’ environment, and civil servants
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis, Don Villar, Scabby the Rat, EPA, Nicole Cantello, Climate Change, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Environmental Council, Colleen Smith, Matt Muchowski, AFGE, AFGE Local 704, Chicago Federation of Labor
Pritzker, General Assembly 'get this work done'
Budget, capital bill, sports gambling pass after deadline, joining progressive tax, reproductive rights, legal weed
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, IEA, Kathi Griffin, Andy Manar, Illinois Capital Bill, Illinois Sports Gambling, Illinois Minimum Wage, Illinois Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health Act, Illinois Property Taxes, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Legal Cannabis, Illinois Legalization, Illinois Legal Marijuana, Illinois Education Funding, Illinois Education Association, Rebuild Illinois, Chicago Casino, Lori Lightfoot, Illinois Working Families
Social services seek infrastructure
Rep. Guzzardi joins housing advocates in saying $1B of capital bill should be allocated to affordable units
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Ted CoxIllinois House Progressive Caucus, Illinois Boys & Girls Clubs, Carol Ammons, Sam Banks, Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club, Bethalto Boys & Girls Club, Cathleen Wilson, Monica Bristow, Heather O'Donnell, Thresholds, Will Guzzardi, Illinois Capital Bill, Illinois Infrastructure, Illinois Working Families
Earned Income Tax Credit could sway fair tax
Economic Security for Illinois backs ‘meaningful’ cost-of-living refund as taxpayer relief
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Ted CoxHarish Patel, Economic Security for Illinois, Chicago Resilient Families Task Force, Earned Income Tax Credit, Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit, Illinois EITC, Universal Basic Income, Rahm Emanuel, Ameya Pawar, Allen Sanderson, J.B. Pritzker, Maurice West, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
Duckworth, Durbin seek relief for working families
Illinois U.S. senators co-sponsor bill to expand federal child tax credit
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Study praises Pritzker's 'fair tax'
UIUC, ILEPI find state could cut property taxes 10 percent
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Ted CoxIllinois Economic Policy Institute, Project for Middle Class Renewal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Robert Bruno, Frank Manzo IV, Ideas Illinois, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Pritzker Fair Tax, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
'Sweat' equity
Pulitzer-winning play at Chicago’s Goodman Theater resonates in small towns abandoned by industry
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Ted CoxGoodman Theater, Lynn Nottage, Aaron Mays, Ron OJ Parson, Tyla Abercrumbie, Mike Cherry, Chaon Cross, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Keith Kupferer, Andre Teamer, Edgar Sanchez, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Unions
Health varies widely by county
Monroe County near St. Louis is healthiest, while Alexander County to south and Vermillion County to east among worst
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Illinois optimism on the rise
Illinoisans across all areas and demographics find quality of life to be ‘good’
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Donald Trump, Bruce Rauner, Michael Madigan, Dick Durbin, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, SIU Carbondale, Illinois Political Divide, Pritzker Approval Rating, Trump Approval Rating, Illinois Minimum Wage, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Independent Maps, Term Limits, Illinois Quality of Life, John Jackson, Charlie Leonard
