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By Orphe Divounguy, Suman Chattopadhyay and Bryce Hill: Illinois’ people problem is clear. The state is consistently in the red when it comes to domestic migration, which has led to population decline for four…
Read MoreBy Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: We may never know why Rahm Emanuel decided to drop out of the Chicago mayoral race. But the media is certainly giving him a pass. They say he…
Read MoreBy Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: Chicagoans have no idea how much pension debt Illinois politicians have saddled them with. Officially, Windy City residents are on the hook for $70 billion in total pension…
Read MoreBy Lennie Jarratt: Audrey Haugan, who retired as Maine West principal at age 54 in June, stands to collect more than $7 million in retirement.
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How many over-burdened Illinois taxpayers hear about this report from Moody’s? Very few. Here is Adam Schuster writing at the Illinois Policy Institute: llinois’ pension debt has set a new record to which no state…
Read MoreBy Vincent Caruso: One former Schaumburg Park District employee alone has accumulated more than $1 million in pension benefits after retiring at age 55.
Read MoreTed Dabrowski was on WTAD earlier this week discussing Wirepoints’ new initiative: calling on all Illinois legislative candidates to refuse a lawmaker pension if they are elected.
Read MoreBy Austin Berg: If lawmakers continue to balk at building the tools necessary to reform pensions, bankruptcy will be the only way out for communities across the state.
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This public-pension scandal (or “party”) is one of the best things that prove that rarely do we elect the best and the brightest. Here is Jon L. Pritchett writing at National Review: Several states…
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“Public-Sector” unions continue to be a problem. “Before 2008, few people paid attention to public employee unions,” Daniel DiSalvo writes in this Heritage Foundation study. Among the few were this website and writers like David…
Read MoreBy Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: Surely, the nation’s longest-ever stock market rally has helped turnaround Illinois’ pension mess, right? After all, booming markets have been coupled with massive increases in taxpayer contributions. If…
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How many Illinoisans will hear about the fact that their state’s budget is out of balance? Or the fact that our state constitution requires a balanced budget? My prediction is very few. Here is…
Read MoreBy Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: Illinois’ sham state budget is unbalanced yet again. A fiscal year 2019 budget that was celebrated by both sides of the aisle as “balanced” just a few months…
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Ah, to be a municipal pensioner. Seriously, though, how is it that Republicans and conservatives in Illinois cannot find a way to win when stories like this are so common? It’s because they have…
Read MoreBy Austin Berg: Of every additional property tax dollar that went to municipal fire departments in Illinois from 1996 to 2016, 78 cents went to pensions, not public safety.
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