New Illinois bill proposed to crack down on smash-and-grabs – WGN
March 29, 2022
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As crime continues to rise, Illinois police seek more funding, penalty enhancements – Center Square
March 29, 2022
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Senate Democrats offer tax cut plan to help Illinois families; Republicans say their relief plans ignored – Center Square
March 29, 2022
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In Illinois right now, 3.6 million people receive an earned income tax credit. Senate Bill 3774 would offer that targeted tax relief to 1.2 million more people.
Illinois’ COVID school closures hurt math and reading scores – IL Policy
March 29, 2022
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SAT math scores dropped nearly 15%, and reading scores dropped 9% from 2019 to 2021 among Illinois high school juniors. Low-income and minority students saw bigger losses.
Illinois Governor Invested in Company With $2.6 Billion In State Contracts – RealClear
March 29, 2022
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In 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker’s trust bought stock in the health insurance company Centene Corp. That same year, Illinois gave $2.6 billion worth of Medicaid contracts to Centene Corp.
Mass Incarceration: A Weaponized Myth – ZeroHedge
March 29, 2022
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A republication of our Wirepoints column.
Illinois adds 19,600 jobs in February, still missing 178,000 from pandemic – IL Policy
March 29, 2022
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Illinois Senate Republicans criticize plan to address unemployment trust fund deficit – WMBD
March 29, 2022
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Police chiefs tabulate costs of Illinois reform mandates – WBBM
March 29, 2022
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The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police is out with a report detailing how much state funding they need to do their jobs and implement mandated reforms – $759 million.
Chicago mayor has 71-person police unit to protect her, blames Trump for being in danger – Daily Wire
March 29, 2022
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Mass incarceration: a weaponized myth – Wirepoints
March 29, 2022
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“Mass incarceration” is also meant to evoke the notion of a criminal justice system imprisoning Americans indiscriminately, in service to a “prison-industrial” complex. There’s just one problem. In Illinois the incarcerated are less than six-tenths of one percent of the adult population. That includes all major venues: local, state, and federal jails or prisons.
Lawmakers vote to subsidize Illinois’ border communities. It’s a failed strategy. – Wirepoints
March 29, 2022
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Lawmakers want to pour subsidies into Illinois’ border cities. Their plan is to take tax revenues from everyone across the state to artificially prop up cities where the mess is most visible.
When Illinoisans flee, they take their families, their wealth, their entrepreneurship, their philanthropy with them. And that hurts the state. – Wirepoints and Jeanne Ives on with WJOL’s Scott Slocum
March 29, 2022
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Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski and Jeanne Ives joined Scott Slocum’s morning show on WJOL. They discussed why Illinois is bleeding people and how the state’s border communities are suffering thanks to the state’s uncompetitive policies.
In Illinois, Pandemic Funding Is Running Out for Community Health Workers –
March 29, 2022
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Illinois used federal pandemic money to hire community health workers who connect people with food banks and rental assistance programs, just like public health officials have long hoped to do. What will happen to the community trust that has been built up when the federal money runs out and the workers disappear?
Lightfoot ‘fully expects’ Columbus statue to be returned to Grant Park pedestal – Chicago Sun-Times*
March 29, 2022
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she “fully expects” the statue of Christopher Columbus to be returned to its pedestal in Grant Park, but not before a security plan is in place to prevent a repeat of the 2020 debacle that left dozens of ambushed police officers injured.
Rich Miller: Legislation passed for unemployment trust fund but not to GOP approval
March 29, 2022
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