The study found that, even with the same college degree, students from low-income families earn less than those from middle ...

Can you afford rent in Illinois? What about Rockford, Peoria or Springfield? Here are the highlights of the 2025 "Out of ...

But a new study suggests that the American dream is still more elusive for some people in Illinois than for others, and that the pathway up the economic ladder is not easily scaled.

Paychecks for more than 40 percent of American workers are lagging the rate of inflation, and it’s likely middle- and ...

More investment in higher ed would pay off big for Illinois ... that wage gap ballooned to 84%. ... the Georgetown study acknowledged they’d still exist, ...

A new wage gap study shows that a Black woman working full-time year-round will likely lose more than $1 million over a 40-year career compared to a white man. As the Institute for Women’s ...

Until last year, the Illinois gender wage gap was consistently wider than the U.S. average — which has barely budged in the past two decades. The state’s new law aligns with a growing national ...

Wage Gap Will Cost Each Black Woman $1 Million Over Time, Study Shows. On average, a Black woman makes $50,470 annually at the median compared to $79,950 for a White man.

Higher paying jobs boast larger gender pay gaps than less profitable jobs, even among professionals with post-secondary degrees from colleges such as Boston University, according to a NerdScholar ...