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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...
When Archer Daniels Midland told Decatur city officials that it would be moving its global headquarters to Chicago, city councilman Pat McDaniel said the news hurt, but that it wasn’t surprising. “Young people don’t want to locate in Decatur anymore, at least we’re starting to see more and more people want to move to places like...
With the June 16 submission deadline quickly approaching, state legislators are pulling out all the stops to boost Chicago’s chance of being selected to house the Barack Obama Presidential Library—but not all lawmakers are on board with the effort. During an April 17 hearing, the House of Representatives Executive Committee approved a bill to allocate...
The Institute’s Director of Labor Policy, Paul Kersey joined Byers and Company on WSOY to talk about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the case of Harris vs. Quinn.