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Posts Tagged ‘ Nationwide ’

Boost to COBRA funding will lower the cost of health care coverage for newly laid-off Americans

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March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009 – Robert Marks, 31, and his wife, Deborah, were ecstatic to learn last July that she was pregnant. But the news couldn't have come at a worse time for Marks, who lost his employer-sponsored insurance when GE Captial in Chicago laid him off four months earlier under the pressure of a crumbling economy. When his...
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Increased Pell Grant Funding Proposed in Stimulus Package to Offset Higher Education Costs

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February 19, 2009

Feb. 11, 2009 – College students from low-income households stand to benefit most from the educational provisions in the economic stimulus package, but paying for college will remain a daunting task for many Illinois families. The House of Representatives’ version of the economic stimulus package designates $15.64 billion for Pell Grants, with an additional...
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Rising demand for mental health services coincides with country’s financial woes

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February 19, 2009

Feb. 19, 2009 – Americans are worrying themselves sick over their financial security in a declining economy. Doctors nationwide have reported increasing patient complaints of fatigue, irritability, sleeplessness and apathy, which are common symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to an October 2008 report by the American Psychological Association. But just as the need for mental health services is reaching...
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Immigrant groups to rally today in Chicago for change

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January 21, 2009

Jan. 21, 2009 – One day after President Obama's inauguration, immigrants are stepping right up to ensure that their issues get attention from the new administration, holding actions in Washington D.C., Chicago, and elsewhere. Today in Washington, the Fair Immigrant Reform Movement and groups from across the country, including members of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee...
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Inauguration Day schedule, program to begin at 10:30 a.m. Central

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January 20, 2009

Jan. 20, 2009 Created by bronzevillemetropolis.com Tuesday morning, the Obamas and the Bidens will attend church service followed by a coffee with the Bushes and Cheneys. The entire party will travel to the Capitol together for Barack Obama’s inauguration where he will be sworn in with Michelle Obama holding the Lincoln Bible. The 44th...
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Illinois advocates say successful stimulus package must include affordable housing

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January 15, 2009

Jan. 14, 2009 – With the still-growing housing crisis at the core of the sharpest economic downturn since the Great Depression, advocates called for affordable housing to be a key component of stimulus and recovery plans. "Housing is infrastructure," said Jack Markowski of the Chicago-based Community Investment Corporation, alluding to massive infrastructure investments planned in the forthcoming stimulus program....
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With Inauguration Coming, Whither 2008 Campaign Gear?

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December 20, 2008

Dec. 19, 2008 – Long after the polling machines have been put away and the campaign yard signs taken down, political memorabilia stores and online auction sites still have plenty of presidential campaign items to get rid of. Candidate buttons, bumper stickers, T-shirts and masks are still being sold — even from the losing candidate. Sets of McCain/Palin...
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Chicago Lawn Neighborhood Serves as Example of Growing Foreclosure Crisis

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December 18, 2008
Chicago Lawn Neighborhood Serves as Example of Growing Foreclosure Crisis

Dec. 18, 2008 Story by John McCarron It was the red dots-scores of little red specks sprinkled across a map of just one neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side-that spoke the loudest. Sen. Richard Durbin Several high-powered experts spoke Dec. 4 in Chicago at a field hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services....
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The Global Financial Crisis: An Economic Meeting Place Between the U.S. and China

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December 5, 2008

Dec. 5, 2008 – Karen Yang works at an import jewelry shop in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood. She said the word among business owners is that times are tough and sales are down. Just up the street from her, a woman behind a counter selling Oriental décor nearly breaks into tears over the slowing economy. "No business...
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Thousands of Provisional Ballots Went Uncounted in Chicago

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December 2, 2008

Dec. 2, 2008 – Jill Kahn woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Election Day to cast her ballot. Among the first to arrive at her precinct in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, Kahn, 31, waited 30 minutes to vote, only to find her name missing from the official registration list. Two years ago, she got married and changed...
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