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LABOR EXPERT AVAIL: Northwestern University football players to vote today on whether they should be represented by a union

Illinois Policy Institute labor expert Paul Kersey available to comment on college athlete unionization vote WHAT: Northwestern University football players are scheduled to vote today (Friday, Apr. 25) on whether they will be represented as university employees by a union. This vote will have a dramatic impact on college athletics nationwide. WHO: Paul Kersey, Director of Labor...

Government waste in Illinois

Brian Costin, Director of Government Reform at the Illinois Policy Institute, describes Government waste in Illinois with WCIA.

Wasteful state government grants

Naomi Lopez-Bauman, Director of Health Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, discusses redundant and wasteful state government grants being awarded to determine roads that need servicing with WRSP in Champaign.

$100 million for Obama library?

CBS2 weighs in on Illinois lawmakers’ $100 million proposal to land Obama library.

A progressive tax in Illinois: would you save money?

Not only is there a push to extend the temporary income tax hike in Illinois that’s set to expire in January, but some lawmakers want to move away from Illinois’ flat tax to what they call a fair tax. The movement for a progressive, or graduated, income tax in Illinois is moving forward. “It’s not...

10:30 a.m. TUESDAY: IL Policy Institute marks “Tax Day” by releasing plan for IL lawmakers to keep promise of state tax sunset

Presser at 10:30 a.m in Chicago; will have satellite feed for downstate outlets CHICAGO (April 15, 2014) On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Illinois Policy Institute will reveal its proposals to balance Illinois’ state budget while allowing the temporary income tax increase to expire. Gov. Quinn and state legislators continue to perpetuate the false narrative that tax...

What’s the matter with Illinois?

If the states are laboratories of democracy, then a great comparative policy experiment is taking place in America’s Great Lakes region. Democrats in Illinois have been pursuing their blue-state model of higher taxes and union-dominated government. Neighboring states since 2010 have gone for lower taxes and union reform. The comparison is especially apt because Illinois...

Local control on firefighters

The Belleville News-Democrat was right to raise a warning about HB 5485 (Illinois lawmakers erode local control, April 4), a bill that would allow arbitrators to set minimum staffing levels in fire departments throughout Illinois. Local officials ought to decide how firefighters are deployed. Allowing arbitrators to set both wages and manpower means that taxpayers...