The Illinois Policy Institute invites you to a breakfast discussion on ObamaCares ten-year effect on Medicaid expenditures in Illinois.
Excess red tape hurts business. Where superfluous laws and regulations prevail, businesses and individuals lose out.
Excess red tape hurts business. Where superfluous laws and regulations prevail, businesses and individuals lose out.
The Snow Squad was Sunday afternoon capturing the conditions of side streets throughout the city. Five days after the Blizzard of 2011 we saw significant improvement in the conditions of the city's neighborhood and side streets.
What can the United States learn from Sweden?
Despite a monumental traffic debacle along Lake Shore Drive, the Illinois Policy Institute said Chicago City Hall did an exceptional job responding to the Great Blizzard of 2011.
In this weeks Spanish Language Series we focus on the essentials of school choice for Hispanic families.
Cost of tax hike equivalent to average Illinois paycheck gone.
After hearing of the Local Transparency Project and the 10-Point Transparency Checklist, Sen. Dan Duffy contacted the Illinois Policy Institute to address the issue with legislation at state level.
The Institute's Snow Squad canvassed the city to see how well Chicago responded to the Blizzard of 2011 and gave the city a B.
Family budgets are on the line. The average Illinois household faces an increase of nearly $1,500 in its state income tax bill. A head cook and an office worker with two kids, earning a combined $80,000, will pay an additional $1,527 in state income taxes thanks to the tax hike – on top of the $2,160...
The projections below are based on a 66% increase to the income tax – a hike from 3 to 5 percent – with the standard $2,000 per person deduction. For more information and research on this proposed tax increase see What Governor Quinn’s Income Tax Hike Means to You. How did we calculate the figures? We...
The Problem Illinois families should be wary of plans to hike taxes at the state level that would all but wipe out the benefits of the bipartisan tax compromise between President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans. In federal legislation that extended the Bush-era tax cuts, and also included a payroll tax cut, a four-member family...
Institute CEO, John Tillman, on First Business discussing the pension funding shortfalls in Illinois and across the U.S., and answering the question of whether a federal bailout for Illinois is near.