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This article was originally featured on NBC Chicago on October, 13, 2014. Illinois has one of the highest cell phone taxes in the country, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation. Americans pay an average of 17.05 percent in combined federal, state and local tax and fees on wireless service. This is typically...
Our Director of Jobs and Growth, Michael Lucci, joined WICD to discuss the Illinois Policy Institute’s research on employment among different demographics in the state. Read more.
This article was written by Naomi Lopez Bauman and featured in the Chicago Tribune on October 10, 2014. Tribune reporter Michelle Manchir’s article “Quinn now in front on Obamacare; With numbers in, governor touts health care success” (News, Oct. 1) fails to evaluate two important aspects of the Affordable Care Act. The first is Gov....
Illinois Policy Institute research on the ongoing and harmful effects of the recession and slow recovery for minorities and young people in Illinois was featured in a story by Angelica Sanchez of WICD 15 in Champaign. See the full story at wcid15.com
If you watch the movie “Gone Girl” and enjoy it, be sure to thank the people sitting around you. Assuming that you’re in a Missouri theater, many of them helped pay for the film even before they bought tickets. Missouri taxpayers provided 20th Century Fox with $2.36 million in subsidies for “Gone Girl,” which stars...
Startling new data reveals just how long Illinoisans will have to wait for the state to have a decent job market, since the end of the 2009 recession. It will take a minimum of seven years for the state to rebuild its job market to where it was per-recession. The study was conducted by the Illinois...
This article was written by Tim Swarens and featured on Indy Star on October 1, 2014. So a reader asked a good question a couple of days ago: What the heck is a “practical conservative?” The query was prompted by the debut of my twice-a-week column through which I plan to explore how conservatism can be applied...
This article was featured on Herald Review on October 1, 2014. Although Decatur’s unemployment rate is dropping dramatically, the area has failed to create new jobs over the last several years. The category called non-farm payroll jobs decreased 8.2 percent between January 2008 and July 2014, a loss of about 4,500 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau...