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A Brookings Institution study concludes that while the metro area is growing more slowly than other large cities, we're making progress on prosperity and sharing the wealth among those who remain. "The data suggest to me the region is losing relatively low-income jobs and population but gaining on the higher end of both. That’s consistent with a shift from manufacturing and lower-end positions to a so-called knowledge economy, and consistent with other recent reports that the city is losing lots of black residents but college graduate rates are rising quickly among those who remain."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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It appears to me that Crains is a left wing biased publication. I also believe that Hinz is a typical intolerant hate-filled liberal democrat.
This is exactly opposite what all other (shall I say ‘non-liberal’) institutions are reporting. It’s also opposite what the actual facts are showing. People are leaving IL at record numbers and those people are high-income earners who are taking their money with them.
The ultra-rich that remain are getting wealthier just as they are in California and New York.