Illinois Policy Institute Launches the Center for Poverty Solutions to Reduce Poverty in Chicago
September 27, 2023
September 27, 2023
CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 27 -- The Illinois Policy Institute issued the following news release:
Sixty years and nearly $12 trillion since President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty, 17.2% of Chicagoans still live in poverty - over 450,000 men, women and children struggling every day.
Poverty is one of the biggest issues facing Chicago, which has one of the highest poverty rates and the fourth-largest impoverished population in the nation. That's why the I . . .
Sixty years and nearly $12 trillion since President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty, 17.2% of Chicagoans still live in poverty - over 450,000 men, women and children struggling every day.
Poverty is one of the biggest issues facing Chicago, which has one of the highest poverty rates and the fourth-largest impoverished population in the nation. That's why the I . . .