The pulse of the Chicago public service community is weakening at a time when demands on food, energy assistance and emergency housing are increasing.
That's the message from a new report out from the Chicago Community Trust measuring the increase in the demand for human services as a result of the recession.
The report measures six indicators of human impact - food pantry visits, food stamp utilization, foreclosures, calls to the homeless prevention hotline, unemployment and mass layoffs - and all six show a drastic increase from where they were a year ago.
"It means they have to scrap for resources that they didn't think they would have to scrap for," says Jim Lewis, the Trust's senior program officer.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
City's "vital signs" are worsening, officials say
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