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In Chicago: CEO John Tillman, VP of Policy Ted Dabrowski In Springfield: Executive VP Kristina Rasmussen WHAT: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will deliver his annual “State of the State” address today. Illinois Policy Institute experts are available to comment on Quinn’s remarks and offer a taxpayer’s view on the real state of the state. WHO: In...
What must the president say in his State of the Union address and what must he do to win back disillusioned twentysomethings?
Why are young people who elected the president twice growing increasingly disillusioned and dissatisfied?
A lawsuit was filed by a coalition of major public employee and teacher unions in Springfield claims the cost-of-living cuts, salary caps and raising of the retirement age is unconstitutional. Eddie Arruza talked with Anders Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, and Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy...
by Charles Lane America’s public-sector unions are on the defensive. Wisconsin has stripped them of most collective-bargaining rights and ended mandatory dues payments. Union-negotiated pension benefits are linked to the fiscal plight of cities from San Jose to bankrupt Detroit. Last week, the Supreme Court heard a constitutional challenge to a long-standing element of public-employee-union power: the “agency fees”...
Illinois Policy Institute Director of Labor Paul Kersey joined Tom Miller on WJPF to talk about the Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court case. Experts available to discuss case. Media contact: Diana Rickert 312-607-4977 To read the Institute’s amicus brief, click here. To hear Pam’s story, click here.
by Sean Higgins New information from an Illinois state agency raises questions about whether the state was right to make home health care workers eligible for unionization, a case now before the Supreme Court: It is not clear that the state ever properly verified the vote that first organized the workers. In a Dec. 12...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that will determine if a Medicaid recipient caring for her child is a state worker required to turn part of her meager resources over to union bosses. Illinois resident Pam Harris is a 55-year-old mom earning less than the minimum wage who cares for her...