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Protestors demonstrate for a 15 dollar minimum wage in front of McDonalds

What we’re reading this week: May 18th

Lauren Dean May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017Further Reading

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. Then, a look at how…

Even more reasons to raise the minimum wage

Lauren Dean May 8, 2017 May 11, 2017Jobs

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 number of low-wage jobs would…