Illinois has suffered the nation’s 10th-worst GDP growth rate since Gov. Pritzker took office – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Mark joined Dan and Amy to talk about how Illinois has had no net new job growth in the past 20 years, why Gov. Pritzker continues to deny Illinois’ out-migration crisis, how retiree health insurance benefits are the state’s second-largest debt behind pensions, the details of TTX leaving Chicago for North Carolina, and more.

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Old Joe
2 years ago

I heard Allied Van Lines is gonna name JB their salesman of the year!

Giddyap
2 years ago

Illinois Democrats have made Illinois poison for job creators.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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