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Child poverty is on the rise after falling by 59% between 1993 and 2019.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Education Program (SNAP-Ed) is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and helps SNAP recipients learn how to eat healthy food on a budget. Its employees complain of wages so low that they themselves qualify for SNAP.
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Medical respite programs provide homeless people a safe place to recover from surgery or acute illness, learn to manage a chronic condition, and get help finding permanent housing. The decades-old concept has taken off in recent years.
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A child poverty report released Monday shows major improvement in the last decade, but for kids in many rural pockets of the state, progress was less significant.
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday announced new federal funding to expand the state’s food assistance program for school-age children who would normally receive…
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Measures of child well-being have declined during the last 10 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has raged. But those economic, health and educational...
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Likely more than 100,000 Illinoisans will lose food stamps under a rule change finalized by President Donald’s Trump administration this week.
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Though the U.S. poverty rate has dropped to the pre-recession level, Illinois has not yet reached that target.
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More counties appear on an anti-poverty group’s watch and warning lists this year than last. Of the state’s 102 counties, 67 are on a watch list — or...
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An estimated 10,643 people in Illinois are homeless according to federal data. Many of those are working - but still can’t make ends meet.For the Stephens…