Ed. Note: Today’s post comes to us from our allies at Asian Americans Advancing Justice. We deeply appreciate their work and contribution to A Just Chicago. Special thanks to Tania Unzueta at Mijente for contributing…
This week, we’re reading about the mechanisms that drive Chicago’s continued inequities in a few different sectors. First up, some new information about how CPD uses computers and profiling to track folks without arrest records.…
In Washington, the Senate is getting ready to vote on the Republicans’ new legislation which would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), would also strip important…
This week, we’re reading about the illusion of school choice and how Chicago communities are pushing back against it, the impact of Chicago’s demographic changes, and some real solutions for CPS’s budget woes. 1. The…
A new study from the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that increasing the minimum wage would allow more workers to find affordable housing. Meanwhile, the…
