A new data release from the Internal Revenue Service can only be described as a complete embarrassment for the Prairie State.

It’s no mystery why businesses are leaving Illinois.

Indiana and Michigan laid the framework for a manufacturing and jobs recovery. Until politicians in the Illinois General Assembly get serious about pursuing real reforms, the state’s jobs climate with continue to decline.

Areas of Illinois that are driven by backbone industries such as manufacturing are being hollowed out. That reality is showing up in the form of government dependence.

Many of the reforms that were so effective in Michigan are included in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s legislative agenda for Illinois.

Policy pain points continue to kill blue-collar jobs in Illinois.

The state’s beleaguered manufacturing sector is hurting worker interests.