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Through passage of 2020's Intergenerational Poverty Act, lawmakers set an ambitious plan: to cut deep and persistent poverty by 50 percent by 2026, lift all children from poverty by 2031 and eliminate poverty entirely in Illinois by 2036. But like most of the commissions and blue-ribbon panels that lawmakers create, it has no authority to fix the problems it finds. And the commission, which has seven vacancies, is a long way from meeting its goals.
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Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
I am not certain how to understand this because didn’t LBJ declare a war on poverty in 1964? Does this mean his programs that created massive spending programs in existence to this day have not worked? So I guess we are to believe that revving up the engines to deliver even more of the existing failures will give positive results…and the we wonder why we have the problems that we do.
“ Bu .. bu.. but blue states subsidize red states with the welfare money they give them!” Not a peep out of that crowd while roughly a third of IL is struggling like Cairo. And what about all the money Pritzger says we have for illegals, etc. More smoke and mirrors from the largest Marxist operative in the Midwest.