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Wirepoints reports that nation's declining birth rate is a particularly serious issue in Illinois
A dwindling national birth rate could have particularly dire consequences here in Illinois, reports an online political think tank.
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Illinois still waiting for housing to rebound
Illinois home values have yet to return to pre-recession levels, making the state home to one of the worst recovery rates in the country.
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Bill to allow food stamps at fast-food restaurants misses the mark, Wirepoints president says
In the matter of Illinois' Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Wirepoints' Ted Dabrowski believes lawmakers in Springfield are not seeing the forest for the trees.
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Nothing funny about Illinois' budget mess
The fact that the Illinois budget situation has become a farce is no laughing matter to Ted Dabrowski.
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Property tax freeze 'a lame, transparent and phony attempt' to hoodwink Illinoisans, Glennon says
A tax package passed by the Illinois state Senate last week to push Gov. J.B. Pritzker's revenue-raising agenda includes a property-tax freeze and other "gimmicks" that are not what they seem, the founder of an online news outlet said during a recent interview.
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While creative, Wirepoints notes that Pritzker's alleged tax scheme is nothing new in Chicagoland
An article posted on the government watchdog website Wirepoints said that Illinoisans should not have been too shocked to learn about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s alleged ploy of removing toilets from his Gold Coast mansion to avoid a higher property tax bill.
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Bill requiring state workers to be residents raises concern for GOP lawmakers, policy watchdog
Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) is convinced the Illinois Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill requiring all new state workers to reside within the boundaries of the state screams desperation.
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Wirepoints claims that Pritzker's progressive tax will, in fact, hit the middle class where it hurts
Illinois government watchdog Wirepoints views Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax proposal as an equal opportunity destroyer.
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'A perfect demographic storm' – People not just fleeing Illinois; birth and migration rates plunge
Illinois’ steadily rising outmigration numbers may not tell the whole story about the state’s declining population.
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College Illinois' expected half-billion dollar taxpayer bailout imminent but no surprise, Wirepoints founder says
The College Illinois prepaid tuition program is barreling toward a state taxpayer bailout and that should surprise no one, the founder of an online news outlet said during a recent interview.
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'Illinois is shrinking' – Wirepoints provides sobering data about state's outmigration crisis
When it comes to its accelerating outmigration crisis, Illinois has now deteriorated into an island among Rust Belt states, and a sinking one at that.
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Pritzker's fiscal plan doesn't add up, Wirepoints says
Government watchdog website Wirepoints insists numbers don’t lie when it comes to the financial projections being advanced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Wirepoints says Pritzker does not want 'ordinary Illinoisans' to know facts behind state's budget crisis
Years of unbalanced budgets, unpaid bills, pension shortfalls and a collapse in manufacturing jobs are among 20 "facts" that Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't want "ordinary Illinoisans" to know, an online news service said earlier this week.
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Wirepoints founder says Democrats are talking in riddles
Mark Glennon says he marvels at how Illinois’s lingering pension system crisis now has Democrats basically talking in riddles.
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Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
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Lethal property taxes propelling residents out of Illinois
According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, at least 1.5 million residents have fled Illinois since the start of the new millennium, and Wirepoints website places the bulk of the blame squarely on the state’s “lethal combination of rising property taxes and stagnant incomes.”
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Wirepoints: Rauner's exit no cause for celebration now that Pritzker is in
Illinois residents may soon come to realize a change of scenery in the Governor’s Mansion may not be enough to give the state a different look.
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Wirepoints president says Pritzker can't keep campaign promises
Ted Dabrowski, president of the website Wirepoints, says Gov. J.B. Pritzker's first act as governor of Illinois confirms what Wirepoints predicted before he took office: He will not keep promises he made while campaigning.
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High taxes, job scarcity blamed for fueling exodus from Illinois
Ted Dabrowski argues it’s not hard to figure out why Illinois continues to struggle: New U.S. Census Bureau data report the state lost population for the fifth straight year in 2018.
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Retirees' health benefits adding to massive state debt
In Ted Dabrowski’s eyes, Illinois lawmakers' track record of financial failures are almost as endless as the state’s ever-increasing debt load.