Progress Illinois

In the United States, hunger is often perceived as a foreign problem, reserved for destitute villages in the developing world. But the national recession has brought into focus the magnitude of food insecurity on our own soil.  And Illinois is no exception.

In just six months, the stimulus funding that helped buoy state
governments and keep school districts solvent will disappear. While
there has been plenty of debate
over how many teaching jobs the money has preserved or created here in
Illinois, the consensus among ...

Congress moved a few steps closer yesterday to extending
unemployment insurance for jobless Americans and boosting the economy
more broadly. First, as we noted yesterday, the U.S. House approved the final version of a defense appropriations bill (H.R. 3326)
that includes a...