Posts related to the report’s section Our Students’ Families Deserve Adequate Pay and Permanent Jobs:
Manufacturing in Chicago has taken another dive as the snack bakery that makes Oreos, Wheat Thins and other popular snacks is closing half of the plant and moving it to Mexico. The plant is located in the Chicago Lawn community… 
In 2012, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback cut income tax rates and created exemptions that made business profits essentially tax free. Instead of generating growth, as the Governor, his Koch Brother allies, and budget consultant Arthur Laffer had theorized, revenue fell… 
Despite clear evidence (e.g., Rothstein, 2004; Sirin, 2005) of the influence of socioeconomic factors on academic performance, current CPS policy fails to acknowledge the fundamental link between economic and other resource inputs and educational outcomes. 