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A 2008 study on state worker pay was cited in a report by GateHouse Media Illinois and quoted in the Rockford Register Star. More than 6,200 Illinois state employees earned more than $100,000 in 2012, according to a published report. GateHouse Media Illinois newspapers reported this weekend that 8 percent of the 76,000 employees surveyed...
The Hill’s Congress Blog published the following piece from the Illinois Policy Institute’s Director of Labor Policy Paul Kersey: This week marks National Employee Freedom Week, a national campaign that celebrates individual freedoms regarding union membership. Sadly, many states, including my home state of Illinois, don’t have much to celebrate as far as employee freedom goes—we...
Illinois Policy Institute Vice President of Policy is quoted in the following article published by The Alton Telegraph. Like an action hero laboring over whether to cut the blue wire or the red wire and defuse the ticking bomb, lawmakers are again going to tackle the issue of pension reform. Each daily tick on this counter...
The Institute is cited in the following opinion piece by the Peoria Journal Star. Only in Illinois could you end the fiscal year with $6.1 billion in red ink and have it be considered good news. On Monday Illinois Comptroller Judy Barr Topinka said that a $1.3 billion unanticipated windfall in April allowed the Deadbeat State to...
Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman joined Charles Thomas on ABC 7 to discuss the pension committee’s lack of progress. After a summer of continued credit downgrades and persistent high unemployment, the bi-partisan pensions committee has nothing to show despite nearly three months of work. At an un-related event, a self-described “anxious” Governor Pat Quinn worried that...
Illinois Policy Institute Director of Government Reform Brian Costin is quoted in the following Daily Herald article. by Jake Griffin Of all the information available on a municipality’s website, salary details for most department heads should be one of the easiest things to find. After all, a state law dictates that current compensation records for employees making...
The Institute is mentioned in the following The Wall Street Journal article: by Collin Levy Illinois lawmakers have been notoriously reckless with the state’s pension liabilities, leaving the system among the most underfunded in the country. In its latest bellyflop, the committee in charge of finding a “compromise” solution to the crisis missed a July 9...
Crain’s Chicago Business published the following opinion piece by Institute Vice President of Policy Ted Dabrowski. There’s no question that Gov. Pat Quinn’s decision to hold hostage legislators’ paychecks until pension reform passes is, in Mr. Quinn’s mind, a political slam dunk. What better way for Mr. Quinn to show he’s serious about reform than making legislators...