The battle for Right to Work is a marathon, not a sprint

03/31/2013

Labor unions have a virtual lock on Illinois politics. Unionized government delivers services ever-less efficiently in rough proportion to its ever-increasing size.

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As ObamaCare comes to Illinois, the fight for health care freedom continues

02/28/2013

Three years after the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA, we are beginning to suffer its painful consequences.

Rubio is thirsty for school choice

02/20/2013

Though most of the attention Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, has received since he delivered the Republican response to the president’s State of the Union speech has been about his bad timing when taking a drink of water, many of the ideas he presented should have piqued viewers’ interest. This excerpt was music to my ears: “We need...

California assemblywoman pushes No Pension Bailout legislation

By Jonathan Ingram

01/31/2013

Recent calculations have put the total level of states unfunded pension debt at more than $2.5 trillion.

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Illinois’ high-tax environment causes historical out-migration

By Brian Costin

01/09/2013

The Illinois Policy Institute has long warned that Illinois high-tax environment hurts the states economy. Prior to the 2011 income tax hike, we sounded the alarm that higher taxes would cause people and businesses to leave the state.

Bailing out state pension systems rewards bad behavior

12/31/2012

Over the weekend, the Peoria Journal Star published a letter to the editor from an elementary school principal in downstate Illinois.

State-funded ObamaCare insurance exchange: a bad deal for Illinois

12/31/2012

Not only is it optional for states to establish an exchange, but states that defer to a federal exchange will also save upward of $100 million annually in exchange costs.

Obama’s likely to continue focusing on big government solutions for education

11/08/2012

Unlike four years ago, a vote for the re-election of President Barack Obama was not about change. It was about maintaining the status quo. This is no truer than in the issue of education, where Obama will continue to use the federal government’s purse strings to incentivize states to pursue his top-down agenda. The two...

With the election over, will Obama bail out Illinois pensions?

By Jonathan Ingram

11/07/2012

President Barack Obama has won a second term, giving him what he described earlier this year as “more flexibility” in his policy choices. Will one of those choices be bailing out state pensions? All across the country, states are grappling with pension systems that are massively underfunded. Under new accounting rules, Illinois’ unfunded pension debt stands...

Media Roundup: No Pension Bailout

10/03/2012

See what they're saying about the No Pension Bailout project.

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The battle for Right to Work is a marathon, not a sprint

As ObamaCare comes to Illinois, the fight for health care freedom continues

Rubio is thirsty for school choice

California assemblywoman pushes No Pension Bailout legislation

Illinois’ high-tax environment causes historical out-migration

Bailing out state pension systems rewards bad behavior

State-funded ObamaCare insurance exchange: a bad deal for Illinois

Obama’s likely to continue focusing on big government solutions for education

With the election over, will Obama bail out Illinois pensions?

Media Roundup: No Pension Bailout

Illinois Forward 2027: How to fix Illinois’ state finances

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students