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The most dysfunctional state in America? Soaring unemployment, sky-rocketing debt and punishing taxes send residents fleeing
2024-05-04
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Move over Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and New York, a new state is in contention for the 'most dysfunctional' in America.

Illinois is grappling with a string of issues which have triggered a rise in residents departing the state.

The state has struggled to add jobs and its public pension debt has ballooned to nearly $150 billion. Meanwhile,
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its population has declined, hurting tax income.

Conservative thinktanks have now grouped Illinois with other blue states like New York and California, which have also faced an exodus amid issues ranging from immigration to crime.

'Unemployment rates are very high; wage growth is lagging compared to most other states,' said Bryce Hill, the director of fiscal and economic research at the Illinois Policy Institute.

Hill told the Daily Caller: 'The Census Bureau has reported that residents are leaving the state en masse to the tune of hundreds of thousands every single year, so much so that the state's population has actually been declining for the past 10 years.
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Old news for anyone who has done business with this deadbeat state. Years in arrears paying bills to its vendors. Always crying broke yet bullying it's beleaguered taxpayers.

Refugees should be treated by new host states like the lepers they are.
Posted by: Regular+joe   2024-05-04 12:00  

#2  Taxpayers are just serfs to the public employees union in IL.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-04 09:09  

#1  Blue State Blues: Democrats Should Skip Chicago, Hold Zoom Convention Again
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-04 08:21  

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