Illinois lost more students to out-of-state colleges than any other state in the nation since 2010 – Wirepoints joins The Scott Slocum Show on WJOL

Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joined the Scott Slocum show on WJOL in Joliet. They discussed the brain drain from Illinois and how college students are leaving the state because of higher tuition, spurred by skyrocketing pension costs and administrative bloat.

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Wally
4 years ago

When they go to schools in other states, they see the contrast between IL and their new state and don’t want to go back to IL

NB-Chicago
4 years ago

Link doesn’t work

NB-Chicago
4 years ago
Reply to  NB-Chicago

Ok,it works

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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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