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Amazon.com Inc.'s recent adoption of a policy requiring racial minorities and women be interviewed for senior management openings has put a renewed focus on diversity at tech firms, with some members of the Congressional Black Caucus saying the industry still has a long way to go to address racial disparities.
In a letter to Chicago Bears ownership, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) calls for Virginia McCaskey, principle owner of the franchise, to give more clarity on how the team plans to enforce the NFL's new anthem policy. She is the first member of Congress to ask for transparency from a team regarding the new rules.
The recent article entitled "We're ‘bullseye' in trade wars" details the real threat that Kankakee farmers are under from President Trump's misguided and ill-conceived trade war.
If the president continues to pursue his current course of dangerous action, the underpinning of Kankakee's and Illinois' economy will fall away.
A new bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives is aimed at reducing infant and maternal mortality rates.
Representative Robin Kelly introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives that would give women who are on Medicaid longer periods of coverage to battle outrageously high rates of maternal and infant mortality in the country.
A House bill introduced Wednesday would expand the amount of time that new moms could remain on Medicaid, in an effort to reduce the number of pregnancy or childbirth-related deaths.
"Too many mothers have died already," said Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., who introduced the legislation. "Too many kids are growing up without a mother. Too many families are living a nightmare that doesn't end."
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I learned shocking realities about young people who work in the sex trade Thursday when I attended a Congressional field inquiry on trafficking held by U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson.
Kelly gathered representatives of law enforcement, education and social service providers for a "solutions-only" dialog about ways to reduce the number of young people who are lured to prostitution.
CHICAGO – A group of young activists in Chicago met and rallied today calling for better lives and safer streets in the city.
Young activists and their adult mentors conferring about Chicago's South and West Sides.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly called the meeting, saying these young leaders must demand anti-violence resources.
"We cannot continue like this. We're losing a generation of young people," Kelly said.
Mayor Emanuel and Police Superintendent Johnson have been touting progress reducing shootings on the South and West sides.
It was just a couple of weeks ago, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly said, that a man approached her inside a store where she was shopping and thanked her for helping his son find a job.
The man's son had attended the congresswoman's Youth Job and Resource Expo held a year ago in Harvey, and had been able to find work through the event, Kelly said Tuesday.
Her office is again hosting the Job and Resource Expo from 9 a.m. to noon April 21 at Thornton Township High School, 15001 Broadway Ave., Harvey.
In an area where corn and soybean fields were once planted, a massive Amazon Fulfillment Center situated on 84 acres along West Monee Manhattan Road is now king of the landscape.
The 856,000-square-foot building — the fourth fulfillment center in Will County — was opened to the media Thursday morning as a workforce of more than 2,000 people and robotic automation sorts and send packages on their way to customers not only in Illinois and the Midwest, but across the country as well.