Center for Poverty Solutions

Poverty loses when human dignity prevails

America has lost the War on Poverty. After nearly 60 years and $12 trillion, the poverty rate remains stuck between 11% and 15%. We’ve focused on making poverty more bearable rather than helping people escape a trap that lasts for generations. We’ve created dependence and taken people’s dignity and purpose. There are better ways to treat people, and we will bring free-market solutions to one of the most important policy issues of our time through the Center for Poverty Solutions, starting in Chicago. Together, we can defeat poverty and build self-worth.

79,000 more Illinoisans are in poverty because state can’t fix its culture of corruption

If Illinois could have reduced corruption to the national average, an estimated 79,000 fewer people would be living in poverty, according to an analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute. State lawmakers can help by passing ethics reforms.

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Dontay Lockett

“My experience with being homeless and with the government, is they really didn’t help that much. They still made you feel like you have to have the same quality that anybody else that’s not homeless.”

Jobs are the ultimate crime stoppers

Illinois taxpayers will pay about $5.7 billion over the next five years in costs related to ex-offenders returning to prison.

By Austin Berg

Making work pay in Illinois: How welfare cliffs can trap families in poverty

Single parent with two children household and two parents with two children household scenarios in Cook County, City of Chicago, Lake County and St. Clair County

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