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Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman to speak Wednesday morning at event hosted by Union League Club of Chicago and Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Illinois has the worst-funded pension system in the nation, the second highest unemployment rate of any state and, despite record revenues, billions of dollars in unpaid bills. How did Illinois get here? Decades of...
Have you ever hiked up a steep hill or mountain? Sometimes the climb goes well; other times there are setbacks, and you have to start again. The pride in reaching your goal provides tremendous satisfaction, and the joy fuels the willingness to continue on the journey. But imagine instead how would you feel if, just...
In recent years, neighboring states such as Wisconsin and Indiana have enacted landmark education reform. But here in Illinois, many of these reforms have yet to be implemented. On Tuesday, an education policy researcher from the nonpartisan Illinois Policy Institute will discuss how Illinois can reform its government school system in a way that improves...
Illinois Policy Institute Director of Health Policy Naomi Lopez Bauman joined Mike Flannery and Darlene Hill on Fox Chicago to break down ObamaCare and separate fact from fiction.
Startling statistics: 75% of students in Chicago’s lowest-performing elementary schools do not meet state standards in reading and math; 95% of students in Chicago’s lowest-performing high schools struggle with basic algebra and summarizing reading assignments There is a lot of talk in Chicago about “struggling public schools” and “fixing public education.” But year after year,...
Today, proponents of a progressive tax hike plan to lobby in Springfield in support of higher taxes on the middle class – Here’s five reasons why a progressive tax hike is wrong for Illinois Across the state, tax hike advocates are laying the groundwork for Illinois to abandon its flat income tax in favor of...
All county-level governments except one in the Champaign-area fail online transparency audit In the age of the internet, it’s never been easier to keep the public informed about what government is doing. But a recent audit of government websites statewide found that county-level governments are underperforming when it comes to online transparency. Iroquois, Vermilion, Ford,...
Jacob Huebert, senior attorney with the Liberty Justice Center, joined Good Day Monday to talk about the ‘Amazon tax’ being struck down and what it means for Illinois.