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One of the most damaging impacts of Illinois’ people loss to other states is the destruction of Illinois’ tax base. When people leave in a given year, they take their incomes (adjusted gross incomes, or AGI) with them, and that means the state’s tax base suffers. A smaller tax base, everything else equal, means less tax revenues for safety, education, road repair and every other core government service – or, as is typically the case in Illinois, more debts and more tax hikes.Unfortunately, Illinois’ out-migration problem is much bigger than just a one year loss: the state has lost people...

One local industry is booming: moving companies, because so many New Yorkers are fleeing the city for the ’burbs in the wake of the pandemic, the spike in violent crime and the general rise in disorder. And Mayor Bill de Blasio’s answer is to cheer. Perry Chance of Show Up movers told The Post his “volume has increased by at least 70 percent” in the past few months. “[People] say the rich are leaving New York. Well, they are!” July saw a 44 percent rise in home sales in area suburbs — with an astounding 112 percent hike in Westchester...

Employees at the NUMMI plant work on the last Toyota Tacoma truck to come... Employees at the NUMMI plant get a look the last Toyota Tacoma truck to... FREMONT, Calif. (AP) - The last car has rolled off the production lines at California's sole auto plant. Workers are trickling out of the New United Motor Manufacturing plant in Fremont as they complete their tasks and the plant readies to shut down. Nearby, job centers have been set up to help the newly unemployed figure out benefits, retraining and other options. The plant made Toyota Tacoma trucks and Corolla sedans. The...

CALIFORNIA CITY - Preparation is under way to begin construction on the long-proposed Hyundai Motor Co.-Kia Motor Corp. test track facility. Workers have been at the site for two weeks, making the biological surveys required before construction permits may be issued. This includes marking Joshua trees that may be removed and identifying any Mohave ground squirrel or desert tortoise habitats. Permits to allow the construction in light of possible habitats for those two species are expected any day, City Manager Jack Stewart said. Once the biological surveys are complete, construction work may begin, hopefully at the end of this week...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SALEM -- City leaders have 6.7 million reasons to fight for Salem Harbor Station. That's how many dollars the coal- and oil-fired power plant paid the city this year in taxes -- enough money to run the Fire Department and Council on Aging, combined. Facing a state-imposed deadline to install new pollution-cutting equipment by 2004, the operator of the power plant says it might have to close. Taking the threat seriously, city officials and business leaders say that could have immediate -- and devastating -- economic consequences for Salem. "What it...