Chicago’s youth unemployment rate is higher than the rest of Illinois and the nation at large, according to a new study, demonstrating a sign of the uneven recovery since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Young minority Chicagoans were particularly clobbered economically by COVID-19, and their recovery since has been mixed at best, a reality that all of the city is dealing with.
As it seeks to protect Illinois’ public funding of health coverage for noncitizens, the Healthy Illinois Campaign is touting the benefits that coverage brings to immigrants, their families, communities and the state as a whole.
