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.”
Just break the contracts, break the promises and take our pensions away, right corporatists?
Sometimes the “must-do’s” trump the “should-do’s.” Whatever one thinks about honoring pension obligations, the math just doesn’t work for it to happen. That’s largely what this site is about.
No matter how small the reforms are the pols will tell us how great they are and our dumb voters will believe them.