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KZIM: High taxes and out-migration

Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute,  joined Faune Riggin on KZIM-AM  “The Morning Meeting” to discuss how high taxes and failed public policies have forced thousands of people to move out of Illinois to states like Missouri.

Examining Illinois’ Unemployment Numbers

This story was featured on Chicago Tonight on July 22, 2014.  After lagging behind the rest of the country, Illinois’ economy is starting to pick up the pace in job growth. Officials are touting a recent record drop in unemployment over the last quarter. What’s behind the latest trend, will it continue, and has Illinois’...

Health Care and Legal Experts Available: Decision in Halbig v. Burwell could topple ObamaCare

Illinois Policy Institute experts available to comment on the decision of a major court case that could be start of ObamaCare’s unraveling WHAT: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court has ruled today that the Internal Revenue Service does not have the ability to circumvent the original intent of the Affordable Care Act...

States debate millionaires’ taxes

This article was written by Adrienne Lu and featured in USA Today on July 16, 2014. When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last month vetoed a tax increase on any income over $1 million, no one was surprised. The Republican vetoed similar tax increases on the wealthy in 2010, 2011 and 2012, arguing that the state’s...

States Aren’t Willing to Tax the Super Rich More

When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last month vetoed a tax increase on any income over $1 million, no one was surprised. The Republican vetoed similar tax increases on the wealthy in 2010, 2011 and 2012, arguing that the state’s richest residents would flee to other states, taking much-needed tax revenues and jobs with them....

Illinois as an opportunity state

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.

High taxes pushing people out of Illinois

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.

High court’s Harris v. Quinn decision should go even further

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...