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Posts tagged Working Families
Expand state tax credit, says Chi task force
Earned Income Tax Credit offers statewide method to address poverty, inequality
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Ted CoxWorking Families, Illinois Working Families, Earned-Income Tax Credit, Universal Basic Income, SEIU Local 1, American Red Cross, Tom Balanoff, Celena Roldan, J.B. Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel, Milton Friedman, Allen Sanderson, Ameya Pawar
Pritzker surveys 'Rauner Wreckage'
New report finds Illinois ‘Digging Out’ from $3.2B debt, $500M worse than Rauner estimated
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Susana Mendoza, Roberta Lynch, AFSCME Council 31, Janus v. AFSCME, Illinois Budget, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Dan Hynes
Pritzker cheers Senate passage of new minimum wage
If enacted, law would raise it to $15 an hour by 2025; governor urges House to follow
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Minimum-wage hike would thrive outside Chicago
Illinois Economic Policy Institute finds earnings would rise most in central Illinois, Rockford
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Working FamiliesTed CoxSam Toia, Paul Rumler, Will Guzzardi, J.B. Pritzker, Frank Manzo IV, ILEPI, Illinois Minimum Wage, Chicago Minimum Wage, Kimberly Lightford, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
Teachers put in the work — outside class
Lorna Stowers holds down three outside jobs to make ends meet when she’s not teaching English at Bond County Community High School in Greenville
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Ted CoxWorking Families, Education, Illinois Education Association, Illinois Teacher Shortage, Illinois Teachers, Bruce Rauner, Lorna Stowers, Bond County Community High School, Kaskaskia College, Beowulf, Macbeth, Frankenstein, Epic Hero, Epic Poems, Teacher Salaries
Shifts in parenting driven by added economic anxiety
Spending increases are highest for kids under 6 and over 18
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Working Families, Pre-K, Illinois Preschool, Intensive Parenting, Helicopter Parenting, Illinois Tuition, Affordable Care Act, Free-Range Parenting
Got a raise? Give it to health care
Study finds that rising health costs have far outpaced wage increases over the last two decades
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Ted CoxEconomic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens, U.S. Health Care, Insurance Premiums, Health Costs, Working Families, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Kaiser Family Foundation, Pew Research Center
Health care top issue in upcoming midterm elections
With insurance premiums and deductibles skyrocketing, it’s no wonder voters are concerned
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Deductibles, Insurance Premiums, Inflation, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
Rauner drags feet on union raises
Comptroller Mendoza joins labor leader in call for governor to obey Oct. 1 deadline
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Susana Mendoza, Roberta Lynch, AFSCME Council 31, Brittany Adams, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Unions, Illinois Public Unions, Elizabeth Tomev
Individualists unite! New video
Progressive groups join together under an agenda of interrelated issues they say are ‘overwhelmingly popular with the broader electorate’
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Ted CoxForward Illinois, Jack Darin, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Illinois Chapter, Jennifer Welch, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, Yolanda Piper, SEIU, Mike Ziri, Equality Illinois, Bindu Poroori, ICIRR, Zach Koutsky, UFCW Local 881, Mark Walsh, Illinois Council Agains Handgun Violence, William McNary, Citizen Action Illinois, Working Families, Health Care, Minimum Wage, Unions, Gun Control, Illinois Gun Control, Immigration, Immigrants
Trump Country marked by 'deaths of despair'
Medical study finds Trump strength among voters concerned with rising death rates, lower life expectancy
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Union interest on the increase
Survey finds almost half of U.S. non-union workers would sign to join one
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Pritzker, Rauner clash in debate
McCann, Jackson elbow way into donnybrook, but incumbent and top challenger hold spotlight
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Ted CoxIllinois Governor Race, Bruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Sam McCann, Grayson "Kash" Jackson, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Gun Control, Education Funding, Illinois Education, Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Taxes
States of the unions
As wages rise with union strength in Minnesota and Illinois, study finds Wisconsin lags behind
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Scott Walker, Karen Lewis, Frank Manzo IV, Robert Bruno, Chicago Teachers Union, Illinois Economic Policy Institute, Midwest Economic Policy Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Unions, Illinois Public Unions, Workers, Working Families
The poop on the diaper divide
State Rep. Robyn Gabel backs $80-a-month diaper program as a preventive health issue
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Ted CoxRobyn Gabel, LaToya Greenwood, Michael Madigan, Diaper Divide, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Lee Ann Porter, Loving Bottoms, Diaper Banks, EverThrive Illinois
Parents just can't buy a break
Save for college? How when child care costs just as much?
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Ted CoxChild Care Aware of America, Illinois Child Care, Illinois Tuition, Illinois Working Families, CCAP, Bruce Rauner, Money Magazine, Zillow, HotPads, Working Families
Public support for unions solid
New Gallup poll finds firm U.S. majority backs unions with approval rising
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, United Steelworkers, Unions, Illinois Public Unions, Working Families, Gallup, Janus, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois Economic Policy Institute, Labor Day
The diaper divide: Parents struggle to clothe babies
'You just feel completely like a failure as a parent,' says Lee Ann Porter, founder of Galesburg's Loving Bottoms Diaper Bank
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Ted CoxLee Ann Porter, Loving Bottoms, Diaper Divide, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, National Diaper Bank Network, Diaper Need Awareness Week, The Nation, Salvation Army, Lisa Thorson, Keith Ellison, Rosa DeLauro, Robyn Gabel, LaToya Greenwood, Choral Dynamics, Daughters of Destiny, Bridget Outlaw, New Global Destiny Church, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital
Unions balance political discourse
Study finds unions give voice to voters politicians can otherwise easily ignore
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Child-care union rips Rauner
Guv signs CCAP bill, but SEIU Healthcare Illinois says 'the damage has been done'
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