April 11, 2023
Join SPS and ASPA for a luncheon panel featuring Ralph Martire, Executive Director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability and Arthur Rubloff Professor of Public Policy at Roosevelt University, and Dick Simpson, former Chicago Alderman and retired UIC Political Science Professor as they w
March 29, 2022
The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (CTBA) and the Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy (IRRPP) have teamed up to showcase two reports: CTBA's A Continued Disinvestme
November 9, 2021
“Where Do We Go From Here? Moving Toward Greater Equity in Illinois”
November 2, 2021
The Herb H. Franks Endowed Seminar in Political Science:
The Prospects, Hopes and Failures of Educational Achievement at K-12
April 22, 2021
Lutheran Day is an annual event that traditionally gathers people of faith and their friends in Springfield to learn more about how they can become involved in our advocacy efforts and have meaningful and confident conversations with their Illinois congressional representatives.
March 8, 2021
- How can we make a tough budget more progressive?
- How do we prevent inequitable budget cuts?
- What are refundable tax credits, and are they an answer to reducing inequity?
Join Good Government Illinois’s David Orr, State Representative Robyn Gabel, and Ralph Martire, Executive at the Center Tax and Budget Accountability and Arthur Rubloff Professor of Public Policy at Roosevelt University for a dive into the Illinois State Budget.
March 4, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, Representative Carol Ammons and Representative La Shawn Ford invite you to a virtual town hall to discuss HB 2170, the education and workforce development bill —the second pillar of the Black Caucus Agenda to rid Illinois of Systemic Racism.
The town hall will be broadcast on Senator Lightford's page via Facebook Live. To attend on Zoom, click here: https://bit.ly/3rhm3Uw. Passcode: 066292
Passcode: 066292
Contact the office of Senator Lightford with any questions at (312) 459-6210 or www.senatorlightford.com/contact-us
February 24, 2021
About the event: The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at UIC invite you to a presentation and panel discussion of a new IRRPP report Chicago's Racial Wealth Gap: Legacies of the Past, Challenges in the Present, Uncertain Futures documenting how local patterns in racial wealth gaps shape the lives of Chicagoans.
Analysis of the experiences and life trajectories of the 99 middle class Black, Latinx, and White families who generously shared their stories with us demonstrate that there is much work to be done to support families who are contending today not just with the legacies of past inequities but with the ongoing failures of public policy to address basic needs. The presentation will be followed by a panelist discussion.
Panelists Include:
- Amanda E. Lewis (UIC)
- Allison Flanagan (Center for Tax and Budget Accountability)
- Damon Jones (University of Chicago)
- Joanna Trotter (The Chicago Community Trust)
- Louise Seamster (University of Iowa)
- Lorena Garcia (UIC).
January 14, 2021
Rainbow PUSH is thrilled to launched in November 2020 a new virtual town hall series, called Shaping America’s Education Agenda. This series was designed to serve as a springboard to help shape the future of our country’s education policy. The second discussion in this series will focus on Dr. King’s Dreams for Equity in Education, in honor of Dr. King’s birthday this month. We invite you to join us and our distinguished group of panelists for thought-provoking discussions focused on the extent to which Dr. King’s dream has been realized as it relates to equity in education. What policies do we need to implement to see his dream through?
Register online at pushexcel.org/educationagenda.