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Meeting Name: Human Relations Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/30/2015 10:45 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
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15-4185 1  Committee MinutesCOMMITTEE MINUTES Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 06/10/2015   Not available Video Video
15-3362 1 ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION ON COOK COUNTY YOUTHOrdinancePROPOSED ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION ON COOK COUNTY YOUTH WHEREAS, there are approximately 1.2 million children residing in Cook County; and WHEREAS, in 2014 Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University completed a comprehensive “Equality of Opportunity” study of the Causal Effects of Growing Up in Each of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States on Household Income, with household income at age 26 being a key indicator of a socially, economically, and educationally successful childhood; and WHEREAS, the above-referenced “Equality of Opportunity Study,” applying the above criteria ranked DuPage County number one (1) in the United States in terms of successful childhood outcomes; and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States ranked Cook County number ninety six (96); and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States ranked Baltimore City number one hundred (100); and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 L   Not available Video Video
15-3362 1 ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION ON COOK COUNTY YOUTHOrdinancePROPOSED ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSION ON COOK COUNTY YOUTH WHEREAS, there are approximately 1.2 million children residing in Cook County; and WHEREAS, in 2014 Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University completed a comprehensive “Equality of Opportunity” study of the Causal Effects of Growing Up in Each of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States on Household Income, with household income at age 26 being a key indicator of a socially, economically, and educationally successful childhood; and WHEREAS, the above-referenced “Equality of Opportunity Study,” applying the above criteria ranked DuPage County number one (1) in the United States in terms of successful childhood outcomes; and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States ranked Cook County number ninety six (96); and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 Largest Counties in the United States ranked Baltimore City number one hundred (100); and WHEREAS, the same study of the 100 L   Not available Video Video