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.”
I find the comment about education interesting. IMO, it is an illusion. Even though Wisconsin is a filthy liberal state, their college graduates and high school graduates seem to embrace capitalism and have a much stronger work ethic as opposed to the socialist dregs that are churned out by Illinois high schools and colleges. In Illinois even the colleges STEM programs are infected with liberal orthodoxy. One of the screens I tell my clients to employ is to avoid graduates of certain states and colleges on their first filter of job candidates. I would take a graduate from the liberal… Read more »