Good breakdown in the local numbers and comparisons from the most recent census data.

“There’s not one manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, not one dairy farm, not one resort that can hire enough people,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

A court-appointed administrator on Monday began sending emails to users who resided in Illinois for at least 60 consecutive days between June 7, 2011, and mid-April of this year, explaining that they could be parties to a class-action lawsuit

Comment: Yes, like, say $14 billion worth. That was the actual loss in the general fund as reported in the most recent financial statement.

And why that’s important — to Kankakee and some other cities losing population.

We’re middling.

While the Land of Lincoln continues to lose people on its side of the Mississippi River in the region, the Iowa side of the border has been growing.

It’s due to a rating criteria change and not a change in circumstances, but the result is a five-notch downgrade.

It’s not like we’re short of money or anything. $63 million for 24,000 employees.

By the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, a case that indirectly takes up the future of public unions in Illinois. Will the court effectively clip the wings of labor power, or will it protect the unions’ financial clout? That question only begins to address the stakes.