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.”
Close them up and save the taxpayers some money.
Why should IL young people attend the IL Universities? They are discriminated for being from good neighborhoods or being the wrong color….and then the preference is on racial picks that fit a certain agenda, and out of country people from India and China come in first because they pay more in tuition. I cant blame them for going elsewhere.
“Attractive academic programs and more palatable price tags lured Illinois high schoolers to out-of-state colleges.” The article goes on to suggest various reforms to make IL colleges more attractive.
But the again CLUELESS Trib Board missed the point. It’s not just the IL colleges that suck, THE ENTIRE STATE SUCKS. Reforming the colleges is like putting a band aid on a shotgun wound. It does nothing to fix the underlying problem. Students leave because there are so many other places in the US Better than IL. People from all walks of live are escaping the state.