Beyond degrees: Empowering Illinoisans through career-first education

By Josh Bandoch, Lauren Zuar

06/03/2025

Published June 3, 2025 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The best path to empowerment and success, especially for poor people, is work. Work allows us to prosper while providing dignity, upward mobility, the means to support ourselves and create value for others. It’s how we become thriving members of our community. Central to this process is our education...

Apprenticeships can be lifeline for 177,000 idle Illinois youth

By Lauren Zuar

10/10/2024

Apprenticeships are a great alternative to a college degree, and there is high demand in Illinois. They can help the 177,000 Illinois youths who are out of work and out of school.

Chicago households making $100K targeted by Brandon Johnson allies

By Bryce Hill, Justin Carlson

06/06/2023

An ominously titled document by close confidants of new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson states the new administration’s top priority is to take more money from households making $100,000 or more to fund what they claim is a “just Chicago.”

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Lessons from Denmark: taxing foods doesn’t trim waistlines – it drives consumers to greener pastures

By Benjamin VanMetre

11/14/2012

Does the government have any business taxing foods it deems unhealthy? That was the status quo in Denmark until recently, when the country got rid of its controversial fat tax. This nanny-state policy, originally put in place about a year ago, increased taxes on all foods with a saturated fat content of above 2.3 percent. Authorities...

Institute in The Spokesman-Review: Don’t bail out state pension funds

09/29/2012

The financial meltdown and Great Recession is teaching an expensive lesson: When big institutions face financial crises, governments are all too eager to bail them out.

Institute in Baltimore Sun: Is another federal bailout coming?

08/21/2012

Maryland stands to lose big if the government steps in to save state pension systems

10 Reasons to Repeal the 67 Percent Tax Hike

By Chris Andriesen

01/19/2011

Family budgets are on the line. The average Illinois household faces an increase of nearly $1,500 in its state income tax bill. A head cook and an office worker with two kids, earning a combined $80,000, will pay an additional $1,527 in state income taxes thanks to the tax hike – on top of the $2,160...

10 Reasons to Repeal the 67 Percent Tax Hike

12/31/2010

The average Illinois household faces an increase of nearly $1,500 in its state income tax bill.

12 Reasons to Oppose the Quinn/Madigan/Cullerton 75 Percent Tax Hike Package

12/31/2010

A vote for the tax hike is a vote for hastening Illinoiss economic decline.

U.S. corporate tax rate pushes jobs overseas

09/27/2010

by Ashley Muchow Our current administration has another plan to bring jobs back the U.S. Though the end goal is merited, the plan of action is grounded in poor economic reasoning. President Obama claimed last week that “for years, our tax code has actually given billions of dollars in tax breaks that encourage companies to...

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Beyond degrees: Empowering Illinoisans through career-first education

Apprenticeships can be lifeline for 177,000 idle Illinois youth

Chicago households making $100K targeted by Brandon Johnson allies

Lessons from Denmark: taxing foods doesn’t trim waistlines – it drives consumers to greener pastures

Institute in The Spokesman-Review: Don’t bail out state pension funds

Institute in Baltimore Sun: Is another federal bailout coming?

10 Reasons to Repeal the 67 Percent Tax Hike

10 Reasons to Repeal the 67 Percent Tax Hike

12 Reasons to Oppose the Quinn/Madigan/Cullerton 75 Percent Tax Hike Package

U.S. corporate tax rate pushes jobs overseas

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students