There’s no respite for laid-off Illinois workers in the “summer of pink slips.”

Of the 1,050 new jobs announced, Sprint expects about half to be retail positions and the other half to be filled by wireless experts, network technicians and engineers.

With special tax breaks for Amazon, Illinois resorts to sweetheart deals to overcome the effects of the state’s anti-growth policies, leaving smaller businesses to shoulder the full tax and regulatory burden.

Nearly a third of Illinois layoffs reported in April came from a taxpayer-subsidized move.

For more than a decade, Illinois has been giving select businesses many millions of dollars more in tax credits than the law allows.

The bipartisan path toward putting entrepreneurs first.

Gov. Bruce Rauner ordered Cinespace Chicago Film Studios to pay back their most recent $10 million grant, but further action is necessary to stamp out cronyism in Illinois.

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.