Advocates' Forum, 2021

Policing, rooted in the surveillance of Black folks and used to subordinate minority communities, is often understood as an icon of institutional racism. Environmental ra [...]

This article argues that in the current and ongoing political battle to raise the minimum wage, we must account for the impacts on means-tested benefits. Beginning with a [...]

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To address growing inequalities, cities across the nation have turned to place-based funding strategies. In Chicago, the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund (NOF) provides gran [...]

This article proposes that renter credit programs should be implemented alongside current investment initiatives in low-income Chicago neighborhoods to address concentrat [...]

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Social work clinical literature describes methods for developing clinical relationships that embrace flexibility, authenticity, and efficacy. Translation, or the private [...]

Non-Hispanic, Black women in the United States experience the highest maternal morbidity and pregnancy-associated mortality rates. These rates hold for Chicago as well. O [...]