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By Paul Merrion Illinois always has been one of the last states to suffer from a recession and one of the last states to recover, but this is getting ridiculous. Nearly five years after the recession ended nationwide, the Illinois unemployment rate is 8.4 percent, third worst in the nation. When Gov. Pat Quinn took...
The wide range of needs in different schools, and even within schools, makes it tough to reach a consensus on how to improve education. Other hurdles are built into the American DNA. We respect everyone but we will fight for our own kids, our own families, and our own neighborhoods. It’s homework time at the...
Grants help so many organizations, non-profits, governments. But, some grants using your tax dollars and going to local governments are raising some eyebrows right now. $5,000 is heading to the Village of Sherman in the form of a grant from the Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission. The grant is from the federal government through IDOT....
Despite launching a Spanish language website, a bilingual call center and spending millions on outreach and marketing efforts targeting Latinos, the state of Illinois was unsuccessful in persuading the majority of these consumers to sign up for health insurance coverage in 2014, federal data show. Only a little more than 1 in 20 Latinos in...
A last-minute surge nearly doubled the number of Illinoisans who signed up for insurance policies offered under President Barack Obama’s health care law in the first year of open enrollment, administration officials said Thursday. From March 2 to April 19, nearly 104,000 people in the state signed up for coverage, bringing the total to 217,492,...
Jacob Huebert, senior attorney at the Liberty Justice Center, the Illinois Policy Institute’s free-market public-interest litigation center, joined H Wayne Wilson and David Melton to discuss limiting funding of election campaigns.
Illinois Policy Institute Vice President Ted Dabrowski on why state politicians plan to use taxpayer money to build Barack Obama’s Presidential Library.
Proposed progressive tax would have raised taxes on anyone with more than $22,000 in taxable income CHICAGO (April 29, 2014) – Today, supporters of the so-called “fair tax,” or progressive tax, conceded that they did not have enough votes to pass their tax hike proposal in the Illinois General Assembly. The proposed progressive tax would...