Opening the books in Illinois: Basic transparency for better government

04/03/2008

Do Illinois citizens deserve to know where their tax dollars go? Less than ten years ago, a state audit found that many of our public officials didn’t think so. More than two-thirds of requests for public documents, the study found, were turned away at local offices. More than a quarter of them were denied altogether....

A Successful Solution- Medicaid Health Accounts

By Chris Andriesen

04/01/2008

Illinois’ Medicaid program suffers from a number of maladies that increase costs for all while deteriorating service for its enrollees. Among these are a perverse set of incentives—incentives that not only perpetuate a culture of dependency among Medicaid recipients, but that also block potential reforms to fix the system. Because Medicaid is a joint federal...

Tax Credits Benefit Students…And the Budget

By Collin Hitt

03/20/2008

Many Illinois children are currently trapped in failing public schools. Most of these children, whose futures are put at risk due simply to geography and bureaucracy, would thrive if given equal choices and greater educational opportunities. Those opportunities can come in the form of the expansion of a simple tax credit—the Illinois Education Expense Tax...

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Opening the books in Illinois: Basic transparency for better government

A Successful Solution- Medicaid Health Accounts

Tax Credits Benefit Students…And the Budget

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