Jason Grotto and Sandhya Kambhampati, ProPublica Illinois, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago
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Between 2012 and 2017, DHS spending for gambling addiction declined 20% even as the number of video gambling machines grew dramatically around the state and appropriations increased slightly. The number of people receiving services dropped by 37%
Nobody in America should be homeless. Nobody in Chicago should be homeless. So, listen up, mister Mayor, and all you Mayor wannabes: What we need now is a homes guarantee: a home for everyone who needs one.
Compared to other women in the United States, black women have always had the highest levels of labor market participation regardless of age, marital status, or presence of children at home.
Healthy meals should include including vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts; fish, lean poultry, minimal red meat; healthy fats such as olive oil instead of butter.
The sci-fi series The Expanse imagines what society will look like if we colonise space – a universe in which might is right and there are no good guys.
In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste.
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