What to know about the Illinois job market in 2024 – Bloomington Pantagraph

Compared with last November, total nonfarm payrolls were up 0.9% over the year in Illinois and 1.8% nationally. “The overall state of the labor market in Illinois is not meaningfully different than the country as a whole,” said Matthew Notowidigdo, a labor and health economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. “In a sense, I think that that itself is kind of bad news, because of the fact that aggregate employment growth in Illinois is continuing to lag the rest of the country."

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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