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Through passage of a law known as the Intergenerational Poverty Act [in 2020], they decreed an ambitious plan: to cut deep and persistent poverty by 50 percent by 2026, lift all children from poverty by 2031 and eliminate poverty entirely in Illinois by 2036.

This law created a 25-member commission made up of private and public sector officials to study the root causes of poverty and racial disparities that plague many of Illinois’ poorest communities, including their lack of safe, affordable housing, high unemployment rates and child care shortages.

But like most of the commissions and blue-ribbon panels that lawmakers create, it has no authority to fix the problems it finds. It can only make recommendations to lawmakers and the governor. […]

And the commission, which has seven vacancies, is a long way from meeting its goals. […]

Cairo Mayor Thomas Simpson said he’d never heard of the commission on poverty elimination, though it did hold a listening session in the town in March 2023. […]

As for the commission’s future, with an impending goal of cutting deep poverty in half in less than two years, it continues to meet and develop policy solutions that it plans to present to the governor and lawmakers.

Always fixin’ to get ready, but never actually getting ready and never actually accomplishing anything.

There’s so much more, so click here.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 12:00 pm

Comments

Study - All in favor vote aye. The ayes have it. (Meaningless Publicity Puff Piece)

Funding of study results - All in favor vote aye. Where’d everybody go. (Meaning actual decision on costs and where money comes from)

Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 12:11 pm
Pritzker approves stuff and moves on. He has no interest in implementation while he allows state agencies’ dysfunction to deepen.

Comment by King Louis XVI Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 12:31 pm
The Edgar administration managed a human services reorganization project in the mid 90s, resulting in the creation of DHS in 1997. One of the big goals at the time was poverty reduction, specifically in areas such as the Southern Seven counties.

Apparently that did not get the job done.

Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 3:10 pm
As with most committees, when all is said and done, much more is said than done.

Comment by SOIL M Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 3:21 pm
1…2…3…get ready to go.

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Jun 11, 24 @ 4:34 pm