Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joined WJPF’s Tom Miller to talk about the $138 billion in federal money that helped Illinois improve its credit rating and a new Wirepoints report on education spending in the state.
See Wirepoints pieces on the subjects:
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
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Unfortunately 99 percent of Illinoisans can’t comprehend what this story is about. They will listen to Pritzker’s second grade level analysis of state finances and think –hey, isn’t this a good thing? We need a lot more Wirepoints and Ted analysis to show people why the fiscal situation is getting worse despite what Moody’s and other rating agencies (who by the way are on the Pritzker payroll) say. It might be an interesting analysis to see how much the three rating agencies are paid by the Pritzker administration. Most people would be shocked at how much it is– not only… Read more »
Moody’s is a joke. To say Illinois is anything but below junk is clearly an accessory to the BS