By Naomi Lopez Bauman
04/01/2015
Only 10 percent of private-sector workers in Illinois belong to a union. But over half of public-sector workers are unionized.
By Naomi Lopez Bauman
03/10/2015
One in 10 workers in the private, for-profit sector are union members in Illinois – 1 in 12 in the nonprofit sector. But more than half of Illinois’ government workers belong to a union.
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By Naomi Lopez Bauman
01/21/2014
As few as 11 percent of those purchasing new health insurance policies and believed to be eligible for coverage in the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges were previously uninsured, according to a recent survey by McKinsey & Co. In other words, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, which was supposed to reduce the uninsured by almost...
TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
by Emily Dietrich President Obama convened a joint session of Congress Thursday night to unveil his latest jobs proposal. Almost immediately, lawmakers and political pundits levied harsh criticism. Leftists expressed fear that the President’s proposal isn’t “bold” enough. The purported $450 billion price tag doesn’t come near the $1 trillion in spending some have agitated...
