Illinois suffered the loss of 2,500 manufacturing jobs in May, and is down 7,900 factory jobs in 2015.
A new report from the Illinois Policy Institute details an insidious poverty trap created by the “welfare cliff.”
On national, regional and county-level comparisons, the report was negative for Illinois.
If Illinois had simply broken even on domestic migration, there likely wouldn’t be much of a budget problem.
Illinois’ prevailing-wage law is crowding out funding for essential services in communities across the state.
Illinois’ statewide out-migration crisis is backed up by city-level data.
Illinois’ economy remains hamstrung by a broken system.
Comparisons with peer states show a badly distorted workers’ compensation system in Illinois.
Americans once stampeded into Illinois in search of opportunity. Now, the opposite happens.
Illinois’ prevailing wage law redistributes income from manufacturing workers to construction workers.
Illinois can pay for cutting LLC fees by enacting workers’ compensation reform.
April data put the state’s policy pain points on display.
Illinois spends three times more on workers’ compensation for railroad construction and maintenance than neighboring Indiana.
March jobs data offer a glimpse into what’s driving hoards of Illinoisans out of the state.