Stephen Franklin, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 07:04:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Stephen Franklin, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com 32 32 163009088 Despite all-out efforts the Census count fell in Chicago minority enclaves Part II https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves-part-ii/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves-part-ii/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:18:48 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7845535 Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series identifying how local minority organizations picked up the mantle to attempt to increase the Census Bureau count to avoid Chicago losing necessary federal resources and political clout. Of all the red flags raised by the 2020 Census, one of the most concerning was the undercount […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves-part-ii/feed/ 0 7845535 Despite all-out efforts the Census count fell in Chicago minority enclaves https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:05:00 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7845518 Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series identifying how local minority organizations picked up the mantle to attempt to increase the Census Bureau count to avoid Chicago losing necessary federal resources and political clout. The numbers weren’t looking good. The count from Chicago’s Black and Latino communities for the 2020 Census were […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/despite-all-out-efforts-the-census-count-fell-in-chicago-minority-enclaves/feed/ 0 7845518 Rocket Dockets: How an effort to speed immigration cases is causing havoc for countless families https://www.chicagoreporter.com/rocket-dockets-how-an-effort-to-speed-immigration-cases-is-causing-havoc-for-countless-families/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/rocket-dockets-how-an-effort-to-speed-immigration-cases-is-causing-havoc-for-countless-families/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:17:07 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=4329130 It is almost as if there were two clocks in a system badly strained by a record backlog of cases, a fact faced daily by immigrants, most of whom are Latino. One clock ticks exceptionally fast and the other drags on painfully slow.

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