Under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Opens the Door to Privatizing Half its Public ...
December 1998 demolition of S. Lake Park Avenue & 39th Street (Photo: Christopher Morris/flickr CC 2.0/Edited from original). Chicago, long a pioneer of privatization, is poised to embark on a sweeping experiment with the city's public-housing stock.
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The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
In addition, most recipients of public assistance must now work in order to qualify. Bill Clinton's welfare reform of 1996 pushed the poor off welfare and into work. Meanwhile, the Earned Income Tax Credit, a wage subsidy, has emerged as the nation's ...
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