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Now is the time to push for innovative solutions and reimagine the eviction system’s role in perpetuating poverty.

While the fight is not over, we celebrate that now the public charge rule should not be implemented in the state of Illinois & the rest of the nation.

Shriver Center & Legal Impact Network members lend voices to stop this proposed rule to upend the longstanding legal standard of disparate impact.

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law champions these policies in this 2021 legislative session.

Investing in people – not punishment – will make everyone safer.

Racism is a public health emergency.

All families deserve to live in happy and stable homes free from criminalization, family separation, and surveillance.

Black communities, communities of color, and those living in poverty are overrepresented in many systems, including the foster system.

The latest move by the Trump Administration to erode federal civil rights protections has especially cruel timing in the midst of a global pandemic.

We must end systemic inequities and prioritize policies that keep families together.