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Illinois finishes 3rd worst in new state-by-state domestic migration study
Illinois’ population dropped by 104,437 from 2021 to 2022, a reduction of 0.82%, according to a study from the website Wirepoints that is based on new data released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Illinois ranked 48th in new domestic migration analysis among states
Illinois finished near the bottom of a new ranking by the website Wirepoints measuring migration gains and losses among the states based on the latest data from the Internal Revenue Service.
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OPINION: Hey, Pritzker, leave them kids alone
A COVID vaccine is now widely available to children five and up across Illinois.
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OPINION: Jump in inflation bails out Illinois politicians, punishes ordinary residents
There’s a price tag attached to the unprecedented federal money lavished on states under the pretext of COVID relief, which is over $9 trillion and growing. It’s in addition to higher federal taxes that will be needed to pay for it. It’s inflation, which is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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'COVID continues to largely spare the lives of Illinois children' according to analysis of CDC, IDPH data
COVID-19's Delta variant isn't more dangerous to children, a right-leaning public policy publication said in a recent analysis of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) data
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Wirepoints claims bill is proof that ISBE, governor cannot enforce COVID mandates
Government watchdog Wirepoints says a recently introduced bill shows that Democratic lawmakers don't believe Gov. J.B. Pritzker has the authority to enforce his school masking mandate.
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OP-ED: Governor Pritzker, It’s You Who Must Answer Justice Kavanaugh’s Questions On Eviction Bans
Nothing in Gov. JB Pritzker’s emergency orders on COVID is more egregiously unjust, tyrannical and arbitrary than his moratorium on residential evictions.
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Conrad: 'Do I, a healthy, unmasked person, cause a real threat to the public?'
Tim Conrad is warning parents across Illinois they could be next after he was recently hit with trespassing charges at a local school board meeting for not wearing a mask in violation of Gov. J.B.
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Tucker: 'I don't think the mandates have really done anything, obviously, to stop the virus'
Labeling all the mandates and lockdowns “a bridge too far,” Libertarian Party of Illinois Executive Director Justin Tucker is saluting parents for “making their voices heard” against what he sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ongoing abuse on the COVID-19 front.
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Pritzker's latest mask mandates: 'It's always fear and confusion'
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski has grown tired of what he sees as the Pritzker way.
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Illinois lost $6 billion in 2019 due to migration, study finds
The collective wealth of Illinois residents decreased $6 billion in 2019 due to population migration trends, according to a new analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by the nonprofit Wirepoints website.
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Wirepoints finds that while education spending increased, student achievement flatlined
Educational spending per student in Illinois grew by a rate nearly two times that of the national average over a 12-year period, according to a new Wirepoints analysis.
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Wirepoints' Dabrowski on Pritzker proposal to slash scholarship program: Constituents 'like that they've gotten out of public schools'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker appears willing to risk the educational opportunities available to Illinois' underprivileged youth in exchange of millions in extra tax revenue, at the dismay of many critics.
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Dabrowski disappointed in Pritzker's broken fair-map promise: 'I think he's missing in action'
Many are questioning how much Gov. Pritzker's promises are worth after he about-faced on a campaign promise to veto any redistricting map drawn by politicians this year.
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Dabrowski: ‘We’ve been arguing' it’s time for the governor to ‘give up his executive power’ related to COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases drop and vaccines become more readily available, Gov. J.B. Pritzker faces criticisms for not loosening state restrictions after a year to allow for economic recovery.
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Illinois’ record pension debt jumps to over $300 billion
A new Moody’s reports details that the state’s pension debt grew by $56 billion in 2020 to total $317 billion overall.
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Retirement costs consume 26 percent of state's budget
The percentage of Illinois’ state budget consumed by its statutory retirement costs beats out every state in the nation, Wirepoints reports.
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OP-ED: They Aren’t Telling The Truth About Illinois’ Pending ‘Culturally Responsive Teaching Standards”
Distortion and dishonesty are endemic in Illinois government, but rarely as blatant as what is being said to defend CRTLS — the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards now pending for Illinois K-12 schools.
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OP-ED: Want to save more Illinoisans from COVID? Vaccinate the elderly first
For months, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has used lockdowns as his main way to handle the COVID pandemic, ignoring calls for him to focus on the elderly instead.
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Dabrowski blasts governor's COVID-19 response: 'There is no data being presented that justifies it'
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski wonders if Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s understands the depths of the damage he’s doing to Illinois with his COVID-19 edicts.