One person who is upset that it is not 3-1.
Posted on 09/17/2014 3:41:34 PM PDT by raptor22
Economy In Crisis: A new study by the Illinois Policy Institute shows in the past four years, the number of new food-stamp recipients in the state has outpaced new jobs nearly 2-to-1.
Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, locked in a tight re-election battle with self-made billionaire Republican Bruce Rauner, has been arguing that Illinois, arguably the bluest of blue states, has turned the fiscal corner and is on its way back.
The recovery may be slower than Quinn wants it to be — but, he says, it is real.
It is an odd recovery, though, that makes more people dependent on government through food stamps than on a paycheck.
A stunning analysis by Michael Lucci, director of jobs and growth at the Illinois Policy Institute, shows that from January 2010, when job losses in Illinois bottomed out, to July of this year, the state gained only 240,000 jobs. Over the same period, it added 420,000 food stamp recipients.
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One person who is upset that it is not 3-1.
Who is that?
Fundamental transformation
Is that Francis Fox Piven of Cloward Piven fame?
Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
So, she would like to see 3-1 rather than 2-1.
Yep.
Can the devil perhaps call her home?
Looks like she is already dead.
My husband started a new job in Illinois last month, and the kids and I are following from Ohio in about a week and a half. Sounds ghastly, I know, but it puts us an hour from my parents and a couple hours closer to my in-laws. I grew up in central Indiana, so there is a lot of family there. Thankfully, it is rural Illinois, far from the Chicago machine.
He is a manufacturing engineer, and the jobs on the assembly line start at $15/hour. He says they can’t keep people because of the insanely high property taxes. No one wants to buy a house in the area, they migrate across the state line a short drive to Indiana, and they can buy the house without the painful tax bill. We have a house in our new location that we are renting for at least the next six months, and we are going to be exploring our options in the immediate area, but we are looking at homes over in Indiana (Terre Haute more than likely).
As planned
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said food stamps were good for the economy, way to go Chicago
Leave, leave Illinois! It’s a welfare state . The taxes are sucking the blood from the middle class. Chicago is sinking. The tax payer base is leaving.
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