Newly released data from the IRS reveal that in 2012, Illinois lost more taxpayers and taxpayer wealth to a greater number of states than ever before.

The average income of people leaving Illinois shot up by $8,000 in the first year of the state’s 2011 income tax hike.

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.