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Illinois unemployment is again on the rise as Pritzker proposes business taxes

By Brad Weisenstein
02/25/2021
Unemployment claims bumped up for a second week in Illinois as Gov. J.B. Pritzker decided to push for 9 new taxes, mostly hitting businesses and job creation. Illinois ranked 49th for recovery last week.

TAGS: budget, COVID-19, JB Pritzker, jobs, labor, taxes, unemployment

Illinois faced nursing shortage before COVID-19 stressed health care

By Laura Bianchi
02/24/2021
An impending health care worker shortage argues for a bill that would allow Illinois to join a multi-state nursing license compact. Nurses could see improved job options.

TAGS: COVID-19, nurse, occupational licensing

Illinois’ poorest hit hardest by COVID-19 job loss, many still unemployed

By Bryce Hill
02/19/2021
Illinois households earning less than $40,000 were four-times as likely to lose their jobs from February-April 2020 and nearly 11 times as likely to still be out of work compared to those earning $75,000 or more.

TAGS: COVID-19, jobs, lockdown, unemployment

Illinois’ leisure and hospitality industry among hardest hit in Midwest

By Bryce Hill
02/18/2021
The industry had been one of the bright spots in the Illinois economy but COVID-19 and state-mandated mitigation efforts have decimated it.

TAGS: COVID-19, JB Pritzker, jobs, recession, restaurants

Illinois unemployment claims double after several weeks of improvement

By Brad Weisenstein
02/18/2021
While the nation gets back to work, Illinois unemployment claims rose again. The past week ranked Illinois 50th out of 51, including Washington, D.C.

TAGS: COVID-19, Illinois, unemployment

Every metropolitan area in Illinois shed jobs in 2020

By Bryce Hill
02/09/2021
The record year for job losses hit every corner of Illinois amid COVID-19 and state-mandated lockdowns.

TAGS: COVID-19, jobs, recession, unemployment

Illinois only Midwest state to lose people in past decade

By Bryce Hill
01/25/2021
Illinois’ population decline has been accelerating during the past 7 years, while neighboring states gain from that loss.

TAGS: Illinois, outmigration, population

2020 is worst year for jobs in Illinois’ history

By Bryce Hill
01/25/2021
Illinois lost 423,300 jobs from December 2019 through December 2020.

TAGS: COVID-19, JB Pritzker, jobs, unemployment

Moving companies report Illinois exodus hits 10th year

By Ann Miller
01/14/2021
More people again in 2020 became former Illinoisans than new Illinoisans. The new General Assembly has the power to stop the moving vans.

TAGS: COVID-19, outmigration, population, property taxes

Illinois unemployment claims double

By Brad Weisenstein
01/14/2021
Illinois unemployment numbers dropped for a week during the holidays, but they were back up last week as the state's hospitality industry remains out in the cold.

TAGS: coronavirus, COVID-19, JB Pritzker, jobs, unemployment

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Jobs + Growth / Research Report

Unfair big government contracts hurt Illinois’ economy, cut job creation


Without reforms that level the playing field between the public and private sectors, the cost of Illinois’ public sector workers will continue to damage the state’s labor market, economy and taxpayers.

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Jobs + Growth / Your Story

Sheldrick Holmes: Grail Café

Jobs + Growth / Policy Point

Policy lessons from Illinois’ exodus of people and money

By J. Scott Moody, Wendy Warcholik
07/07/2014
Illinois Policy In the News

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students

By Ted Dabrowski
05/02/2016

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