A Summit at UIC Aims to Make Progress on Poverty
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Strategies to end poverty in Chicago, proposed at a summit on Thursday.
Poverty was front and center at a summit Thursday at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where local policymakers, union leaders, employers and academics focused on how to end poverty in Chicago within a generation.
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A Summit at UIC Aims to Make Progress on Poverty
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Poverty was front and center at a summit Thursday at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where local policymakers, union leaders, employers and academics focused on how to end poverty in Chicago within a generation.
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