The idea of universal basic income – that is, Uncle Sam paying everyone $10,000 per year – has come back in vogue among economists and policymakers. Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and the director of...
Chicago, Ill. – U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released a statement following the conclusion of his visit to Ukraine. During his visit, Quigley met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, held a meeting with members of...
The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist threats. Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics, using conventional and...
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” is an old adage. While there’s no shame in being the victim of a scam, nobody wants to be a victim twice. That’s why the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning consumers about a government imposter...
Fellow Illinoisans,
Six years ago, the Supreme Court issued a far-reaching decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, permitting corporations to spend freely from their treasuries to influence elections. Since Citizens United was issued, special interests and wealthy, well-connected donors have poured more than $2 billion dollars of outside...
Rubenstein Prize recognizes efforts to improve literacy in the U.S. or abroad
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 8, 2023 — The News Literacy Project today received the highest honor from the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program, the David M. Rubenstein Prize, in recognition of NLP's outstanding efforts to teach people of all...
A new competition launched today will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet. The Foundation’s competition, called 100&Change, is open to organizations working in any field of endeavor anywhere. Applicants must identify both the...
Consumers are reporting another government imposter scam to steal money. This time the scammers are pretending to be calling from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to reports, callers are telling people they’ve been selected to receive a $14,000 grant from NIH. To get it, though, callers tell...
Behind in paying your bills? You might find a debt collector calling. But the law says how and when they can do that. For example, they can’t call before 8 a.m., after 9 p.m., or while you’re at work if the collector knows that your employer doesn’t approve of...
Jan. 28 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, when a space shuttle exploded shortly after liftoff, killing all seven crew members, including a school teacher. For Americans, it was one of those “where were you when” events, like the Kennedy assassination before it and 9/11 after....
