JOIN OUR TEAM! 🚨
We’re hiring a Managing Director to grow our field-building work at @EconomicSecProj . Be a part of a diverse team and maximize the results of this dynamic part of our work!
Apply at link in bio!
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Wow— ART GUARANTEED, our two day celebration of our Power of Cash Narrative Change fellowship is 🎟️SOLD OUT! 🎟️
We are overwhelmed with your interest and support for our artists and this work.
Together, we are creating new narratives about how our neighbors are all deserving of help.
If you have tickets already, we’ll see you this weekend. If you don’t, you can still experience some of this work— use the 🔗link in bio🔗 to listen to the first two episodes of GUARANTEED, a podcast by @respairmedia@airgoradio & hosted by @eve.ewing .
Thank you all!
You’re invited! Join us July 14 + 15 for ART GUARANTEED: A celebration of Chicago creatives, community, and the power of cash.
There are TWO days of FREE events:
First, we’ll launch GUARANTEED, a podcast by scholar + cross-platform writer @eve.ewing plus the team at @airgoradio on stage Friday 7/14 at 7pm.
Then, on Saturday 7/15 from 1-5, we’ll showcase the work of our artist fellows with a celebration for the family and our neighbors who have received a guaranteed income. There will be games, food, and fun!
Both events will be FREE for the family, and hosted at Epiphany Center for the Arts.
Get tickets to the launch & learn more at economicsecproj.org/art
#art #podcast #events #artist #guaranteedincome #Chicago
Moms like Krystal Peters deserve a #ChildTaxCredit!
As the cost-of-living continues to rise, parents deserve more support to make ends meet. A check for each child is the best way to invest in kids & communities.
Reach out to your state legislators today and tell them we need a Child Tax Credit in Illinois!
Go to bit.ly/CTC4IL (link in bio!)
Time is running out for the Illinois General Assembly and Governor Pritzker to create a budget that works for Illinois families, not CEOs.
Our coalition’s proposed #ChildTaxCredit would benefit 1.5M Illinois kids directly.
Take action TODAY! Contact your legislator here at https://bit.ly/CTC4IL (link in bio)
Guaranteed income has made a difference for moms across the country, and right here in our backyard.
Over 130 guaranteed income pilots are planned, up and running, or completed since 2016 – and now the word is getting out! Last night on CBS Evening News, a story featuring Harish I Patel and Cook County Promise participant mother Adriana shows how direct cash is working for families.
🎉 Team ESIL is pleased to announce that Ameya Pawar has officially joined the Economic Security Project team as a Senior Advisor.
In this new role, Ameya will support our Child Tax Credit campaign through the end of this legislative session. He will help us advance guaranteed income in the Chicagoland area. And he will establish a table around public options policy, and explore legislative engagement around anti-monopoly both in Illinois and nationwide.
Ameya Pawar has been a Senior Fellow with the Economic Security Project since 2019 and works on efforts to advance public banking and inclusive finance. In addition, Ameya teaches at the University of Chicago's Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and was appointed to the Illinois Finance Authority by Governor JB Pritzker to help drive efforts to finance clean energy projects and green industrial policy. Ameya is a co-founder and managing partner of OKAY Cannabis, a multi-unit social equity cannabis dispensary operator in Illinois that merges cannabis and hospitality. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Academy Group, advising the CEO on social enterprises and real estate development in Chicago's most resilient neighborhoods.
Before that, Ameya was alderman of Chicago's 47th Ward and the first Asian and Indian American elected to the Chicago City Council. While in office, Ameya focused on labor policy and worker rights legislation that included raising the minimum wage, guaranteeing paid sick leave, creating the Office for Labor Standards, combating wage theft, and preserving housing for Chicago's most vulnerable. Ameya also chaired the Chicago Resilient Families Task Force before leaving office, the nation's first city-led effort to study guaranteed income, the expansion of the earned income tax credit, and the future of work.
Join us welcoming Ameya to the team!
We joined over 250 of our neighbors outside the Capitol to demand a budget for that prioritizes Illinois families, not CEOs.
Our budget should include a #ChildTaxCredit to give families cash to face the rising cost-of living. #twill
Join the fight: bit.ly/CTC4IL (link in bio)
🕐NEW TIME, SAME EVENT!🕠
Join us Monday, March 20 at 12:00pm at the @bronzevillechildrensmuseum for a rally and press event to support the creation of an Illinois #ChildTaxCredit.
The event will include childcare, boxed lunches, and Spanish translation.
Let’s say loud and clear: ILLINOIS MOMS DESERVE THE CREDIT!
“$700 is not a lot, but it is a lot when you don’t have a lot.”
Today in Springfield, @cofionline parent leader Lettie Hicks joined our policy director Erion Malasi and @repevans33 to testify before the House Revenue Committee in favor of HB 3950, the bill to create an Illinois #ChildTaxCredit.
Learn more about the policy at economicsecurityil.org/CTC-leg
🚨ACTION ALERT! 🚨 On Thursday 3/9 at 8am, a bill to create an Illinois Child Tax Credit will be heard before committee in the House. To show your support, please slip in favor of HB3950 at bit.ly/HB3950.
Here’s how to submit a witness slip:
1. Navigate to bit.ly/HB3950 (case sensitive) for the General Assembly’s webpage regarding a bill to create a state Child Tax Credit (HB 3950)
2. Fill out the form with your information in section I. If you are filing as an individual, type “self” for firm/business, title, and for representation (section II).
3. For position (section III), select “Original Bill” from the drop down menu, then please click “PROPONENT”
4. For testimony (section IV), choose “record of appearance only”
5. To submit the created slip, accept the terms and click the “create slip” button.
Proud to be in the audience today at the launch of @eatorgchicago ’s 2nd round of the Chicago Future Fund. A #guaranteedincome program for Black formerly incarcerated people on Chicago’s west side, by Black formerly incarcerated people on Chicago’s west side.
“Everything changes today,” Rich Wallace says to recipients.
