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Work requirements do nothing to address the barriers that keep low-income people from securing and maintaining decent jobs.

Nationwide Collection of State-Based Legal Advocacy Groups Stand with Immigrant Families and Communities

Race matters in the fight against poverty in this country.

While natural disasters do not discriminate, their long-term impact disproportionately falls on low-income communities of color.

Voters will now get to decide if Illinois should enact a Fair Tax.

The new law makes Illinois just the 2nd state nationwide to protect immigrant tenants from intimidation and harassment.

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