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This article was written by Sean Higgins and featured in the Washington Examiner on June 18, 2014. Did a majority of Illinois day care providers ever really want to join the Service Employees International Union? That’s the interesting question raised by a recent report from the conservative Illinois Policy Institute. In 2005, the state recognized...
This article was written by Jack Rooney and featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on June 18, 2014. For a law practice that does all of its work on a pro bono basis, you might think the Liberty Justice Center has no problem finding clients. But for an operation that has a specific goal...
Ted Dabrowski joins Fox Chicago’s political editor Mike Flannery to talk about Gov. Quinn signing a Chicago pension reform bill, which will result in higher taxes for Chicagoans.
Ted Dabrowski joins ABC7 to discuss the Chicago pension reform bill Gov. Quinn signed on June 9.
Illinois Policy Institute: Pension bill does not solve city pension crisis and likely means higher property taxes for Chicagoans Today, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a pension bill for the city of Chicago. Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman issued the following statement today regarding the signing of this bill: “The Chicago pension...
CHICAGO (WLS) –Governor Pat Quinn faces a deadline Monday to sign legislation overhauling two Chicago pension systems that hinge on a property tax increase. Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopes Governor Quinn will sign the bill. The governor said last week he was still reviewing it and hadn’t made up his mind. “How do you spell review?”...
Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, joined the Jim Bohannon Show to discuss the minimum wage
New study finds many suburban public schools are not as strong as parents think CHICAGO (June 3, 2014) — New research to be released at an event hosted Wednesday by the Illinois Policy Institute and Pacific Research Institute finds that many suburban Illinois schools that are considered strong are actually underperforming. The presentation will show that schools in suburban towns such as Plainfield, Waukegan, Downers Grove,...