Via National Review Embattled Illinois governor Pat Quinn will be living on the minimum wage this week. Well, sort of. Quinn, a Democrat, won’t actually earn the minimum wage — he will continue to pull down the governor’s salary of…
Read MoreVia Fox 32 CHICAGO (Associated Press) – Gov. Pat Quinn says his experience trying to live on the minimum wage for a week has meant graham crackers for dinner. Raising the state’s $8.25 hourly minimum wage to at least $10…
Read MoreVia St Louis Post-Dispatch Illinois corporate tax rates are not too high, and they do not stifle business. Our corporate tax policy is in fact too accommodating. Two bills now before the General Assembly could right that. The Illinois Department…
Read MoreVia Politico President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden today are using Labor Day appearances to press the case for a federal increase in the minimum wage — a top issue for Democrats. In Detroit, Biden told hundreds of…
Read MoreVia Progress Illinois One in five Illinois children have at least one parent who would be impacted by an increase to the state’s minimum wage, according to a new report by Voices for Illinois Children. That works out to be about 583,000 children…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times The $1.35 million-and-counting superPAC created to re-elect Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his aldermanic allies is taking its first concrete step to ensure that Emanuel has even less City Council resistance if he’s re-elected to a second…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times A questionnaire distributed to aldermanic candidates by a superPAC created to re-elect Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his City Council allies telegraphs Emanuel’s plan for a post-election property tax hike, two possible mayoral challengers warned Thursday. Ald….
Read MoreVia The Washington Times Americans in growing numbers are unhappy about depending on government for survival — life-and-death survival, not just dependence on government for food stamps, health care, housing or even cash. Even in liberal enclaves such as Chicago and Detroit,…
Read MoreVia State Journal-Register Republican Bruce Rauner’s proposal to dump a temporary state income tax increase would cost public schools $4 billion a year and lead to nearly 28,000 teacher layoffs, the rival campaign for Illinois governor said Wednesday. Paul Vallas,…
Read MoreVia The Washington Post After more than a year of campaigning, New Hampshire Senate candidate Jim Rubens (R) has decided on his closing message: the “disconnect between voters in New Hampshire and politicians in Washington, D.C.” He was campaigning in Groveton, a…
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