Uncertainty about skyrocketing tuition costs, rising taxes, and other factors are the likeliest culprits of Illinois’ student out-migration crisis.
Illinois used to gain net population from Michigan, but data for recent years indicate that Michigan now gains more residents on net from Illinois.
Newly released Illinois jobs report points to anemic jobs growth and a contracting labor force.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that face templates created from photographs uploaded to Google Photos are covered under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act.
February saw the worst WARN report in seven months, with nearly 250 of the jobs lost coming from the manufacturing sector.
Illinois had the highest black unemployment rate of any state at the end of 2016, holding that distinction for six consecutive quarters, according to analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. The Land of Lincoln also has the largest gap between its white and black unemployment rates.
Nearly 20,000 Illinoisans on net moved to the Hoosier State in 2015.
“It really is a concern that job opportunities are leaving. I think Newton has tremendous potential. I think there’s a workforce here that’s ready to go to work, that’s ready to start making a great living for their families. “But the disadvantage that I see is that we are so close to Indiana, where it’s...
The trial bar’s claim of profiteering is misdirection from the real issues. But if the trial bar wants more regulation of profit rates, it should begin with regulation of the profit rates of law firms that make their business on workers’ compensation cases.
The communities in the Quad Cities are nearly identical, but Illinoisans are fleeing to Iowa’s side from the Land of Lincoln’s side, showing just how severe Illinois’ out-migration crisis is.
The Land of Lincoln lost almost 84,000 residents and over $6.5 billion in taxable income to the seven states without an income tax while Illinois’ 2011 income tax hike was in effect.
Like much of the rust belt, Newton, Ill. is facing difficult economic challenges. But the community continuously sticks together.
Hoosier homeowners keep more of their wages as a result of a statewide property tax cap and income tax cuts.
Numbers from the January 2017 Illinois WARN report show most of the mass layoffs were in the service industry.