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A conservative caucus of House members released Feb. 6 its list of recommendations for bettering government operations. The report argued that the government wastes taxpayer funds by retaining complex processes for removing poor performers and guaranteeing pay that rewards tenure rather than performance.
We’re often told that Illinois is not losing its highly taxed residents. Don’t worry about lost income from the rich leaving, we’re supposed to believe. It’s just poorer folks fleeing. But that’s simply not true.
Brace yourselves to get snowed (but not literally).
“We are at risk of shocking the region into an economic downturn when you combine an uncertain property tax environment with a looming pension crisis and new, costly mandates on the region’s employers,” Jack Lavin, CEO of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said. “The changes proposed could …alarm investors and slow growth for the city and county.”
But a new report Thursday from a court-appointed watchdog suggests the Pritzker administration has taken steps that have made it more difficult for those charged with monitoring state hiring practices to ensure political considerations aren’t influencing who gets government jobs.
State inspector general, Pritzker administration are looking into allegation a Republican state agency head pressured staff to slash the $2.5M property taxes Donald Trump paid in 2012 to $1M.
In the age group of 16-19 years, about 11.5% of African Americans are neither in school nor working compared to about 5.3% of whites and 7.9% of Latinos. This demographic disparity rises as people grow older.
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