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Illinois spends 30 to 50 percent more than its neighbors on education, but its students do worse
In a nutshell: Illinois spends far more than its neighbors on education and its politicians are committed to spending hundreds of millions of dollars more every year. All to achieve student outcomes that haven’t improved in a decade and are, in most cases, worse than in neighboring states.
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Why Nobody But Bond Buyers Should Like Chicago’s Latest Deal – Wirepoints Original
The toddlin’ continued for now, but the music can’t go on forever.
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WCIA TV: “A study by Wirepoints tracks population losses from 2010 to 2018, and Macon County ranked 4th out of 102 counties.”
WCIA Decatur used Wirepoints' report to tell its story on Macon County's loss of people. 93 counties in Illinois lost population between 2010 to 2018. Macon County suffered the 4th worst loss - over 6,000 people.
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Illinois’ Early Move to Kill the Electoral College May Be Nearing Success
Survival of the Electoral College depends on how remaining states will vote on NPV and what the courts would do with it.
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Why an aging and shrinking Illinois is a threat to public sector pensions
There’s a perfect demographic storm brewing in Illinois that threatens to take retirement security for government workers from bad to worse: Illinois’ boomer generation is hitting retirement age just as Illinoisans and their wealth are migrating out of the state at a record pace.
I’m sure the woke will throw in a $15 per hour, healthcare and mandatory union and residency requirements onto the investors too!
Articale confirms how wildly over optimistic illinois pol think they’ll bring in a year–$60 million & $240 mill from initial licensing?? When new New Jersey has only brought in $13 mill so far this year..or maybe ill pols dont care, they can just throw out some phoney estimate of projected revenue and the let the bond issuance/spending palloza begin!!!
Cook County needs an extra 2% to prop up their criminal justice system? So legalized sports gambling increases the cost of law enforcement? If that’s the case, shouldn’t every county judicial system be reimbursed 2% by the state? Leave it to Cook County to never pass up an opportunity to add a surcharge to the state’s surcharge. What a joke.
Not that I’d ever think that readers here might be familiar with the commonly used, illegal betting sites, but isn’t the vig typically 10%? With those kinds of taxes going to the state, can the state be competitive? Is anybody going to switch to the new, legal places? If anybody knows, help me out on that.
Money grows on trees, didn’t you know? If you tax it, the revenue will come!