Illinois’ revenues are falling each month of this fiscal year, and it will be difficult to change course.

Attempts to cut off state worker pay need not end in a tax hike.

Last week the Illinois Policy Institute launched "NoPensionBailout.com," a national project aimed at preventing a federal bailout of state pension debt.

Bailout of state pensions would force taxpayers in prudent states to pay for fiscal irresponsibility of Illinois, California

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), the Senate

Institute CEO, John Tillman, featured in an article on reform of the state pension system.

In one of my first media appearances following the tax increases, I noted that the Institute would immediately begin to work on repealing them. Some have wondered if this makes any sense ... Here are some reasons why it does.

by Kristina Rasmussen Illinois’s budget is required to be balanced by constitutional mandate, right? Then why has the budget been balanced only 15 of the 41 years between 1970 and 2010? The last time Illinois had a balanced budget was in 2001. We certainly didn’t have one this year. Charles Wheeler has a great article in the...

The Illinois House of Representatives fails to pass significant spending reforms.