McDonald’s counters Fight for $15 with automation nationwide
McDonald’s counters Fight for $15 with automation nationwide
Calls for a minimum-wage hike nationwide and in Illinois are increasingly met with businesses’ use of technology to cut costs.
Madigan nears title of longest-serving House speaker in U.S. history
Madigan nears title of longest-serving House speaker in U.S. history
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan told reporters he has “overwhelming support” to be re-elected to his longtime post come January. Another two-year term would bring his total tenure as speaker of the House to 34 years.
Chicago to tax businesses who use satellite TV
Chicago to tax businesses who use satellite TV
Chicago City Council expanded its 9 percent amusement tax to include businesses subscribing to satellite television – another way to nickel and dime the most taxed residents in the state.
Definition of Insanity: Madigan
Definition of Insanity: Madigan
Village of Barrington to resist Cook County minimum wage hike
Village of Barrington to resist Cook County minimum wage hike
The northwest suburb of Barrington passed an ordinance to allow local businesses to forgo Cook County’s minimum wage hike, which has the potential to be devastating for jobs in the county.
Madigan’s compromise
Madigan’s compromise
Workers’ compensation for state, county and municipal workers costs Illinois taxpayers $400 million per year
Workers’ compensation for state, county and municipal workers costs Illinois taxpayers $400 million per year
Workers’ compensation is a significant cost to Illinois taxpayers and drains scarce tax dollars from government coffers. Political and business leaders often view workers’ compensation as a costly regulation that affects private-sector investment and employment in Illinois.[1] This description is accurate yet incomplete. The same heavy costs imposed on private-sector employers[2] are also imposed on...
Hundreds on Medicaid waiting list in Illinois die while waiting for care
Hundreds on Medicaid waiting list in Illinois die while waiting for care
Illinois has a Medicaid crisis. With an Obamacare Medicaid expansion program that continues to spiral out of control, newly obtained data confirm fears that the expansion program would prioritize able-bodied adults over the state’s truly vulnerable residents.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Chicago making moves to implement ‘super TIFs’
Chicago making moves to implement ‘super TIFs’
Chicago would create new transit-based super TIFs before the close of the year in order to secure federal funding, while adding more opportunities for city-run slush funds to hoard tax dollars.
3 reasons AFSCME has so much power over Illinois taxpayers
3 reasons AFSCME has so much power over Illinois taxpayers
Over the years, AFSCME – the state’s largest government-worker union – has amassed incredible benefits for state workers through contract negotiations with the state. When AFSCME comes to the bargaining table, it isn’t AFSCME versus the governor – it’s AFSCME versus the state taxpayer. And AFSCME holds extraordinarily more power in the process than the state taxpayers footing the bill.
Illinois lost 80,000 millennials between 2011-2015
Illinois lost 80,000 millennials between 2011-2015
Millennial out-migration from the Land of Lincoln is worse than all its neighboring states.
October BLS jobs report: Illinois has region’s heaviest manufacturing job losses in 2015 and 2016
October BLS jobs report: Illinois has region’s heaviest manufacturing job losses in 2015 and 2016
Since the beginning of 2015, Illinois has lost 14,100 manufacturing jobs.
Home-sharing brings out the best in us
Home-sharing brings out the best in us
New Airbnb regulations pose a serious problem for Chicagoans.