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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on District Spending for English Learners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Most districts failed to prioritize EL-specific spending, employing vague language or funding general categories that did not appear to directly target EL needs."

Pie chart showing responses to a new KFF Health Tracking Poll: 42% would go without insurance, 37% would continue with their current health insurance, 22% would get insurance from a spouse or employer.

Without the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, Marketplace premiums could more than double.

A new KFF poll finds 7 in 10 Marketplace enrollees say they could not afford their coverage if premiums doubled — and 4 in 10 say they’d likely go uninsured. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

Lawsuit aims to stop taxpayer information sharing with ICE Immigrants without legal status paid nearly $650 million in Massachusetts’ state and local taxes in 2022. Advocates question if ICE actions have contributed to fewer immigrants applying for taxpayer n...

Your family's Social Security Administration information can be shared with ICE - even though that might not be legal. A new lawsuit aims to block the sharing of sensitive personal data the government has on you:

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I believe that kids and their caregivers should be included where politics, especially community politics, are happening. Please don't make us feel like we are trying to bring a baby to Alinea.

It always makes me happy when I go to the library and see someone hanging out and reading the newspaper.

As the potential for federal law enforcement action against the unhoused increases, more people are being directed to SPARC.

Now would be a great time to listen to the residents demands and ensure the facility is run effectively, humanely and preserves the safety and dignity of our neighbors.

Like Broadview, SPARC is supposed to be a processing and entry point but the sheer volume of people there and the lack of process have led to unsafe and inhuman conditions...except instead of a detention system this is supposed to be a pathway to housing and "they" aren't running it..."we" are.

Something that occurred to me last night as I was thinking about this...I realized it's VERY similar to what I've heard from people who have passed through the City's Shelter Placement and Resource Center (SPARC).

It's become a de facto shelter even though that's not it's purpose.

A column chart showing the average time by days spent at the Broadview processing center spiking in June.

There’s no medical staff or services at Broadview. No food preparation. No beds. That’s all by design because the facility was created for holds less than 12 hours.
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You could be reading a book right now.

Unpaid labor at a municipal planning agency is not okay--it devalues the expertise required for these positions, and drives inequity.

Chicago's Department of Planning and Development can and should do better!

I am so angry that it even crossed my mind to be angry about the possibility of the DHS Sec showing up at a Cubs game and also they're playing in Milwaukee tomorrow so now I don't need to be angry about that just angry about always thinking about how stuff could be stupider.

Have a talk with the older folks in your life who you love and might be responsible for someday. Eldercare can be the most valuable and the most awful thing you do with your time and it hits a lot of people by surprise in their 40s. Have the talk and keep talking.

The Trump admin says this project should be paused because the CTA followed *federal rules* requiring them to meet goals to give contracts to qualified Black-, Latino- & female-owned firms

The federal government now say those rules - imposed by the feds - are discriminatory

I also feel personally aggrieved bc one of my senators voted to confirm Rollins presumably with the idea that you have to let them have something and let me tell you...THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS

Agriculture is not an issue I know a ton about but I do know a thing or two about what happens when you elect and appoint leadership who enthusiastically dismantle public systems.

Brooke Rollins, who has long openly advocated for using federal power for ideological ends was easily confirmed and no surprise she's into some BS. She openly supported mass deportations of farmworkers and pushed "efficiency" logic for SNAP that is gutting other critical safety net programs.

fwiw, i asked the illinois attorney general kwame raoul’s office last week (before the addition of state police and cook county sheriffs) about broadview police helping move protesters out of the way for ice agents.

this is what they told me:

There are a lot of complications inside our community exacerbated by how and when different groups of us came. We have a lot of work to do.

Today people from South Asia (India & surrounding countries) are the second largest foreign born population in America (after Mexico).

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There is A LOT going on here but from my perspective being a model minority is always a fragile not to mention an immoral thing. There is no amount of perfect behavior that will make hateful people respect us so why try to play their game?

If you live in the following states, please thank your AG for advocating for health care: NY MA WA IL OR CO CT DE DC HI ME MD MI MN NV NJ RI VT

If your AG didn’t sign on, ask why & tell them to do better for our trans family, friends & neighbors.

Legal advocates call for ban on ICE arrests without warrants at Cook County courthouses Legal advocates want ICE to stop making arrests outside Cook County courthouses.

"The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender and the MacArthur Justice Center are petitioning the Chief Judge of Cook County Timothy Evans to prohibit arrests in and around courthouses without a warrant."

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It's possible. This is a tactic for grants that go directly to municipalities, which is why I think the community service and transpo $ might be easier to impound than say housing $. That's my guess based on watching a version of this with Head Start before the courts blocked the citizenship stuff.

Chicago has been appropriated roughly 485M in federal DOT grants that overlap with the 2025 federal fiscal year

(Estimated via usaspending.gov)

Because the federal government shut down on the first of the month, everyone should know folks with a Section 8 Voucher cannot be evicted because the government didn't make the voucher payment, nor can their portion of the rent be increased to cover the voucher payment. 24 C.F.R. § 982.310(b)(1)

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Chicago Already Struggled to Free the Innocent. Its New Prosecutor Has Weakened the Process Further. - Bolts Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job. Meanwhile, she's done little to confront more than a dozen coercion ...

NEW: Chicago has a so-called 'conviction integrity unit' that's meant to identify and free the innocent.

Since the new prosecutor came into office, it's all gone south—cases are not being reviewed, and allegations of police coercion are left unaddressed:
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