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Michael Lucci, Director of Jobs and Growth at the Illinois Policy Institute, talks with KHQA about how Illinois is losing people and jobs to neighbor states because of high taxes and bad policy.
Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joined Tom Miller on WJPF-AM in Carbondale to discuss how high taxes and bad policy has been pushing people out of Illinois and into state like Missouri and Kentucky.
This article was written by Paul Kersey and featured in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 11, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major blow to public employee unions on June 30 when it ruled that people participating in state benefit programs cannot be force-unionized. For more than a decade, states have forced people...
Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joins Mariam Sobh on WBEZ to talk about our recent migration report and how Illinois’ high taxes and dismal job growth are forcing more and more people out of the state.
The Illinois Supreme Court’s 6-1 ruling that the subsidized health care benefits of retired state employees are protected by the Illinois Constitution has created a headache for lawmakers in Springfield. If changes to retiree health care benefits couldn’t pass constitutional muster, what hope is there for pension reform? Joining us to help digest the decision and analyze its...
This article was written by Lee Provost and featured in the Daily Journal on July 5, 2014. Only 500 private-sector jobs were created in Illinois — from August 2013 to May 2014 — the worst performance of any state in the Midwest and the second worst in the country, according to a conservative-leaning policy organization....
This article was written by Brittany Lewis and featured on WQAD on July 2, 2014. The jobs report card is in and the grade is not good. The Illinois Policy Institute says the State of Illinois created only 500 private sector jobs this past school year. “I think people want to go where they know...
Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joins Fox Senior Political Reporter Mike Flannery to talk about the Illinois Supreme Court ruling on state employee health benefits.