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by Investor’s Business Daily Fiscal Disaster: A major credit rating agency has just given Chicago, with more general obligation debt per capita than Detroit, its second triple-notch downgrade in six months. Its bonds are perilously close to junk status. Citing skyrocketing pension costs and a lack of meaningful solutions, Fitch Ratings lowered Chicago’s debt to A-...
By Stephanie Tyrpak By Randy Livingston Illinois has nearly seven thousand units of local government. That’s more than any other state. From school boards to library districts to county commissions, one think tank says it’s high time to cut that number dramatically. The Illinois Policy Institute says shrinking the number of government units will save...
Since ObamaCare was launched in October, more than 5 million Americans have been notified that their health insurance plans will be canceled. In the meantime, just 106,000 Americans have been able to sign up for new health insurance plans through ObamaCare. Here in Illinois, just 1,370 Illinoisans have put an ObamaCare health plan in their...
Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman joins Mary Kissel on WSJ Live to discuss pension reform in Illinois.
Illinois Policy Institute Director of Health Policy Naomi Lopez Bauman joined Natalie Bomke on Good Day Chicago to discuss ObamaCare enrollment numbers in Illinois.
The federal government just announced how many Illinoisans have enrolled in the federal health care program known as ObamaCare. The Illinois Policy Institute’s Director of Health Policy, Naomi Lopez-Bauman, and Vice President of Policy, Ted Dabrowski, are available to comment on these figures as well as provide updates on the law’s impact here in Illinois...
A report released today by the nonpartisan Illinois Policy Institute finds that at 6,963, Illinois has more units of local government than any other state in the nation. The state’s extremely high number of government agencies is resulting in duplication of services, high local taxes and also creating barriers to taxpayers holding their local government agencies accountable....
“Failing schools” have Chicago at the tipping point. But what does this really mean? The Illinois Policy Institute investigated the issue and found that almost half the students in the bottom 10% of Chicago’s public high schools could not do this problem: As a bowling instructor, you figure your students’ averages during tournaments. In five...