August 2005

To call something welfare or to call it government is just a to call it a name. So what? Neither concept is inherently good or bad. Let’s have a real conversation and debate.

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law focuses the 2005 special issue on youth in poverty and encourages advocates to apply creative thinking and creative advocacy on behalf of young people.

Raising concern that banks will reduce lending and services to underserved communities, intermediate small banks will no longer be evaluated under more stringent lending investment and service tests.

When the Senate returns on September 6, they will be tackling the estate tax. If they follow the House’s lead, the government could lose $750 billion in revenue.

The governor signed five bills into law to strengthen the Illinois child support enforcement program while praising several nonlegislative initiatives.

Several Chicago-area offices of the Illinois Department of Human Services are still not processing requests for Crisis Assistance on time despite clear policy requirements that aim to ensure that they do.

The independent monitor’s report confirms troubling patterns and offers an opportunity to reexamine CHA’s inflexible work requirements.

Learn about the employment protections in place for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

New workshops developed to help advocates understand the many special public benefit programs available for domestic violence survivors.

A new study conducted by the Illinois Office of Educational Services examines the roadblocks to high school completion for pregnant and parenting students.