Indiana and Michigan laid the framework for a manufacturing and jobs recovery. Until politicians in the Illinois General Assembly get serious about pursuing real reforms, the state’s jobs climate with continue to decline.

Illinois lawmakers have tried and failed to fix a broken system through tax hikes.

Nearly 2 in 5 workers in the U.S. need government permission just to do their jobs.

Illinois still ranks last in the country for putting people back to work over the Great Recession era.

Illinois’ recent economic history is grim, but there is a beacon of light appearing at the end of the tunnel.

The governor’s agenda should be cause for optimism across the state: competitiveness, not cronyism, is the right path forward to spark an Illinois comeback.

An encouraging December helped pull the Land of Lincoln out of last place in the Midwest for 2014 jobs growth.

Though unemployment rates fell in August for Illinois’ major metropolitan areas, 19,000 workers dropped out of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Because of these dropouts, the workforce shrank in every metropolitan statistical area, or MSA, except Champaign-Urbana. Workforce dropouts drive down the unemployment rate because unemployed workers who leave the workforce...

Since the Great Recession ended, Illinois’ food-stamp enrollment has outpaced job creation by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1. The jobs versus food stamps comparison is a strong indicator of economic hardship. And compared to the rest of the Midwest, Illinoisans are truly feeling the pain. Since the Great Recession ended, Illinois is the only state...