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
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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.
What I am amazed by is why Tier2 teachers have not quit in droves. I would be interested to see a chart of teacher membership numbers for last 10 years — I remember reading something a few months ago about teachers quitting at an elevated rate (nation wide).
If you look at the quit rates publish by the USDOL, you’ll see teachers (and govt employees in general) are the least likely to quit their jobs. If teachers are indeed quitting at an elevated rate, so are all the other professions.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm
I think those numbers are too broad — the education category probably includes administrators and college, no? Anyway, google “teachers quitting” to find the relevant report from December 2018. Though, I am mostly interested in how Tier2 Illinois teachers are responding — they are the people at the bottom of the scheme paying everyone above them.
Those numbers are indeed broad as they include all school support staff, right down to the bus drivers. But the point is if those quit rates are already low, they’re even lower for teachers. Not sure if there are numbers specific to Tier 2 teachers.