Mismanagement of funds nothing new in Illinois – MyWebTimes

"With tongue planted firmly in cheek, I would like to announce my selection for 2019’s “Most Unintentionally Comic Article of the Year.” It’s a genuine knee-slapper. I hope you think so, too. Capitol News Illinois recently produced an article headlined, “State funding for schools would lower property taxes.” Just let that headline sink in. In the great tradition of other over-educated lightweights, Frank Manzo (policy director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute) and Robert Bruno (equally impressive as director of the Project for Middle Class Renewal, where do they get these names?) authored a commissioned report (a sure sign of redundancy) that found property taxes would be reduced if the state of Illinois agreed to pay a much larger share of education costs in Illinois communities."

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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.”

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