A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
The amount of energy expended toward retirement rules and restrictions is astounding. If all this was converted to 401k and simplified where employees worked and received and controlled their own pensions/retirements we could probably fire half the Illinois politicians. Then employees would not be controlled by those politicians and Illinois taxpayers could worry about their own retirements.