A new poll conducted by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute in February 2016 reveals that a clear majority of voters – including 55 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of union members – support or lean toward supporting Right-to-Work laws.

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Illinois lost 56 manufacturing jobs per workday in 2015

By Michael Lucci

02/22/2016

Though neighboring and Great Lakes states added a combined 200 factory jobs per workday on net in 2015, an average of 56 Illinois manufacturing workers, on net, received pink slips each workday during the same time.

TAGS: manufacturing

Caterpillar CEO’s warnings 4 years later: Illinois on downward slide as predicted

By Michael Lucci

02/15/2016

Illinois politicians ignored Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman’s 2012 plea for pro-growth reforms, and Illinois is the only state in the region to have lost manufacturing jobs on net over the last four years.

TAGS: manufacturing, unemployment

Why Indiana’s population grows faster than Illinois’

By Michael Lucci

02/02/2016

Illinois’ weak jobs growth is driving more residents to other states on net than Illinois gains from other states, from natural growth in births or from international immigration.

TAGS: outmigration

Illinois manufacturing workers earn less money, see less growth than Indiana peers

By Michael Lucci

02/01/2016

Federal data show how Illinois workers suffer under their state’s anti-manufacturing status quo.

TAGS: manufacturing

Pennsylvania close to passing Illinois as 5th-largest state in U.S. for jobs and population

By Michael Lucci

01/29/2016

Unlike Illinois, Pennsylvania has actually recovered the number of jobs it lost during the Great Recession, and now has 40,000 more jobs than it had at its pre-recession peak. Illinois, on the other hand, still has 90,000 fewer jobs than it had before the recession, the worst jobs recovery in the U.S.

TAGS: jobs, manufacturing, outmigration, population

Full text: Gov. Rauner’s 2016 State of the State address

By illinoispolicy

01/27/2016

Transcript, provided by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office, of his 2016 State of the State address, as prepared for delivery, to the General Assembly on January 27, 2016.

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