Demographic shifts mean that Chicago’s increasingly diverse young workforce is financing the retirements of older generations ...

A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor in Skokie, Illinois received a surprising notice last year from the Social Security ...

“Everything that I do, truly everything that I do, in my job and every day when I wake up is about improving the lot of the ...

A new analysis reveals the potential economic fallout from proposed Medicaid cuts, with Illinois facing significant job ...

The average retired career state employee in Illinois was paid $93,558 in pension benefits last year. That’s $24,538 more ...

These proposed cuts are not abstract numbers — they represent a direct threat to the 3.4 million Illinoisans who depend on ...

The inclusion of job training was a major demand of environmentalists and their allies under the state's Climate and ...

Illinois residents are benefiting from a long-awaited network of clean energy job training hubs established under the state’s ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A $2 million grant was announced Thursday to increase the number of social workers in Winnebago County, with hopes to alleviate the mental health provider shortage in the area.

"As amended, SB0508 discourages the use of E-Verify, frustrates innovation of employment eligibility verification, and obfuscates E-Verify and Form I-9 inspection requirements by adding layers of ...

Nationally, federal employment declined by 15,000 jobs in February and March, according to data from NerdWallet. Despite the cuts so far, Illinois' total government job numbers are still in the black.

After the Social Security Administration issued a policy change in March that would have ended filing for benefits by phone, Illinois AARP members sent thousands of letters to Congress. The ...