by COFI Admin | Feb 1, 2018 | In the Media, POWER-PAC IL, Stepping Out of Poverty
The Chicago Tribune features the newly released report, “Stopping the Debt Spiral,” and the debt trap that low-income families of color face in Illinois. Read the full column “Fees, Fines, Loans, Scams: How the Poor Get Poorer,”...
by COFI Admin | Jan 31, 2018 | POWER-PAC IL, Stepping Out of Poverty
On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 POWER-PAC mothers and grandmothers, shared the results of their parent-to-parent surveys and personal stories of how they become indebted by predatory systems that take advantage of people living on a low-income, revealing what poverty...
by COFI Admin | Jan 31, 2018 | In the Media, POWER-PAC IL, Stepping Out of Poverty
The Chicago Reader highlights POWER-PAC’s newly released report, “Stopping the Debt Spiral” and interviews POWER-PAC leader Rosazlia Grillier on how debt is impacting low-income families. See the full article here.
by COFI Admin | Jan 10, 2018 | In the Media, POWER-PAC IL, Stepping Out of Poverty
The POWER-PAC Stepping Out of Poverty has been working with partners to oppose utility rate hikes that leave families with massive amounts of debt to the utility companies. Unfortunately, besides Commissioner Miguel del Valle, other members of the Illinois Commerce...
by COFI Admin | Sep 28, 2017 | POWER-PAC IL
50 COFI-trained parent leaders from across Illinois met and voted to build POWER-PAC as a statewide organization. POWER-PAC (Parents Organized to Win Educate Renew Policy Action Council), a cross-cultural membership organization of parent leaders welcomes parents from...
by COFI Admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Early Learning Campaign, POWER-PAC IL
Parents in Illinois won BIG! The Illinois Early Learning Council passed the parent leaders’ recommendations for a new Family Engagement Framework, which includes the creation of a Family Advisory Committee of parent leaders to provide authentic voice, input and...
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