Illinois

It’s time for taxpayers to stop paying for the Ex-Im Bank

By Bryant Jackson-Green

11/28/2014

The average American pays $6,000 in subsidies to corporations every year, but that gigantic chunk of taxpayer change simply is not enough for some special interests.

TAGS: budget, Department of the Treasury, export import bank, taxes

Moody’s: Illinois an outlier in pension debt

By Benjamin VanMetre

11/26/2014

Illinois ranks worst in the nation on ability to pay for its pension debt.

TAGS: budget, Chicago, Illinois Constitution, pensions, Senate Bill 1, taxes

Cost of a state-based ObamaCare exchange underestimated in Illinois

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/26/2014

Despite Illinois’ precarious financial situation, some lawmakers are continuing their efforts to establish an expensive state-based ObamaCare exchange.

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, health care

Illinois among states with highest income-tax burden on the poor

By Bryant Jackson-Green

11/25/2014

Illinois has the highest income taxes on the poor of almost any state in the country, but the solution is not simply to raise taxes on the wealthy, as some constantly push for in Illinois.

TAGS: Chicago, income tax, taxes

School districts plot sales-tax hike for DeKalb County

By Brian Costin

11/25/2014

If a school facilities sales tax referendum was passed in DeKalb County, the 0.25 percent sales-tax rate could rise to 1.25 percent, a 400 percent increase.

TAGS: DeKalb County, sales tax

Illinois Supreme Court dismisses challenge to red-light cameras

By Bryant Jackson-Green

11/24/2014

In a strange turn of events, the Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 20 dismissed a challenge to Chicago’s red-light camera program.

TAGS: U.S. Supreme Court

Tennessee votes to ban income taxation, Illinois should do the same

By Michael Lucci

11/23/2014

Over the last 15 years, Illinois has lost a net of 282,827 people and more than $14 billion in annual income to zero-income-tax states.

TAGS: income tax, jobs

Illinois workforce grows, but job creation rate worst in the Midwest

By Michael Lucci

11/23/2014

Illinois is now down 138,200 total payroll jobs in the recession era, the second-worst recovery of any state.

TAGS: jobs

Veto session week 1 recap: minimum-wage hike, mandatory caregiver training still up for grabs

By Donovan Griffith

11/22/2014

Ridesharing regulations, ObamaCare exchange and extension of the 2011 tax hikes all lay dormant.

TAGS: lame duck session, veto

Court: state employees’ constitutional rights are stronger than yours

11/21/2014

Pension recipients should not be treated as a privileged class of citizens.

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Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

Occupational licensing requirements present one of the steepest barriers to low-income Illinoisans starting careers in beauty services. Illinois requires anyone seeking to become a barber, cosmetologist, nail technician or hair braider to obtain a state license, essentially a permission slip to work. Unlike 45 other states, Illinois offers only one pathway to licensure for each...

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