New IRS data: Illinois lost migration battles with every Midwestern state

By Michael Lucci

08/03/2015

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

TAGS: IRS: Internal Revenue Service, outmigration

Crony chronicles: Certificates of need

By Austin Berg

05/14/2015

How an Illinois state board known mainly for corruption operates a Soviet-style system proven to fail.

Corruption watch: March 2015

By Shawn Tonge

04/08/2015

April showers bring May flowers, but all March gave us was 53 new corruption stories in Illinois.

TAGS: good government

Modernizing marijuana law in Illinois

By Bryant Jackson-Green

03/04/2015

Limited criminal-justice resources need to be oriented first and foremost toward addressing crimes with victims, not personal conduct.

TAGS: criminal justice reform, decriminalization, Kelly Cassidy, marijuana

Will Congress finally live by the same set of rules under ObamaCare?

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

12/26/2014

If lawmakers begin to enter the ObamaCare exchanges themselves, it will certainly draw attention to the hypocrisy of some lawmakers who have imposed this costly law on Americans. But perhaps more importantly, it could serve as an important lever to force lawmakers to re-examine the most damaging aspects of the law.

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, health care

Illinois workforce grows, but job creation rate worst in the Midwest

By Michael Lucci

11/23/2014

Illinois is now down 138,200 total payroll jobs in the recession era, the second-worst recovery of any state.

TAGS: jobs

Why Illinois should forgo state-based health exchange

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/19/2014

A new Illinois Policy Institute report lays out the many reasons why a state-based exchange is not only unnecessary, but also harmful to the state.

TAGS: health insurance

Top 10 reasons Illinois should reject a state-based health-insurance exchange

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/07/2014

Not only is a state-based ObamaCare exchange not required by federal law, but it also contains many drawbacks for Illinois consumers and taxpayers.

TAGS: health care

5 reasons why anti-Right-to-Work study is flawed

By Paul Kersey

09/27/2014

A few weeks ago, Frank Manzo IV of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute teamed up with Robert Bruno from the University of Illinois Labor Education Program to release yet another demonstration of how sophisticated mathematical analysis can’t fix bad data. Their report, titled “Free Rider States: How Low-Wage Employment in Right to Work States is...

TAGS: labor, unions

D.C. court to rehear Halbig ObamaCare decision

09/04/2014

Good news for the Obama administration: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted the administration’s request to rehear the court’s July 22 decision in Halbig v. Burwell. That decision struck down an Internal Revenue Service rule that made ObamaCare insurance subsidies available in all 50 states, even though the...

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New IRS data: Illinois lost migration battles with every Midwestern state

Crony chronicles: Certificates of need

Corruption watch: March 2015

Modernizing marijuana law in Illinois

Will Congress finally live by the same set of rules under ObamaCare?

Illinois workforce grows, but job creation rate worst in the Midwest

Why Illinois should forgo state-based health exchange

Top 10 reasons Illinois should reject a state-based health-insurance exchange

5 reasons why anti-Right-to-Work study is flawed

D.C. court to rehear Halbig ObamaCare decision

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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