Posts Tagged ‘economic justice’

Natalie Y. Moore digs into the ways that segregation continues to shape the politics of her hometown, as well as her own life.

Posted on: April 13th, 2016

Talking Housing Segregation And Chicago With WBEZ’s Natalie Y. Moore



Library hires employee to work with homeless, at-risk people

Posted on: April 6th, 2016

Adecade of serving Oak Park Township as its youth interventionist has given Robert Simmons plenty of experience working with the […]



Libraries are often the safest place for homeless people.

Posted on: April 6th, 2016

Library Offers Homeless People Mental Health Services, And It’s Working



“Bowing to widespread opposition from coastal towns, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it won’t open the US Atlantic seaboard to offshore oil exploration, but will still allow some leases off Alaska.”

Posted on: March 21st, 2016

“It’s an incredible day for the Southeast,” said Sierra Weaver, head of the Coast and Wetlands Program at the Southern […]



Obama just quietly signed a major anti-slavery bill!

Posted on: March 3rd, 2016

Fishing is a huge industry in Thailand — worth roughly $7 billion in exports every year — with people in […]



Chicago retains its dubious title as one of the nation’s most segregated cities

Posted on: March 3rd, 2016

A century after the start of the Great Migration and 50 years after the Kerner Commission Report declared “our nation […]



Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Budget Cuts Hurt Child Care Providers

Posted on: February 17th, 2016

Some daycare providers in Illinois say the state is still behind on payments for families who need help affording child […]



Flint Residents Fight Back

Posted on: February 17th, 2016

“Hundreds of Flint residents on Tuesday packed into a ballroom at the University of Michigan-Flint, hoping to receive answers from […]



Union Plumbers Help Out the Residents of Flint Michigan

Posted on: February 3rd, 2016

300 plumbers from unions across the country descended on Flint to install new faucets and water filters for free!



A Loyola professor is leading the charge against unfair Federal Housing Policy affecting Chicago’s Poor

Posted on: January 29th, 2016

Lanice Walker, 38, sits with her children Dec. 21, 2015, at their apartment in Chicago. Some of her children were […]