Providing For The Most Needy
With over a quarter of Illinois residents on Medicaid, the truly needy are pushed to the side because the state just doesn’t have the funds to cover all these enrollees. As a result, there are long waiting lines to receive care, and many hospitals can’t afford to see patients because unpaid bills from the state pile up.
Read Full ArticlePump The Brakes On The Gas Tax
Why is it Chicago Democrats’ first instinct to tax us more rather than eliminating wasteful spending and using existing funds more responsibly? Is it that they don’t respect us? Is it that they don’t care?
Read Full ArticleIllinois Adopts AOC’s Green New Deal
There is nothing moderate nor realistic about the “Clean Energy Jobs Act.” It is just another government program that will hamper true innovation and stifle economic growth while sticking middle class families with the bill.
Read Full ArticleWho’s Fighting For Your Home?
No matter your color, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or political party, we are all losing to this confiscatory property tax system. Once vibrant communities are vacant, and families are separated. High property taxes are unfair and immoral.
Read Full ArticleCrickets On CPS Sex Abuse Scandal
The systemic failure at Chicago Public Schools to protect children is appalling. The political leaders in the city and state are offering no alternatives to families in Chicago who want to escape a predatory, failing school system.
Read Full ArticlePutting Children First
Despite the odds stacked against students like Deonte Howard, Urban Prep Academy students have a 100% college acceptance rate.
Read Full ArticleExclusive Candidate Report
Using this report, voters dig below the non-partisan labels and review the voting histories of candidates running on Tuesday empowering them to make an informed decision.
Read Full ArticleHistory Repeating Itself
The Governor’s budget address isn’t about budgeting. It is about political priorities, repaying election allies, and cementing voting coalitions.
Read Full ArticleBracing For Tax Hikes
Pritzker can no longer hide behind catchy campaign slogans and flashy TV commercials but must address these stifling problems head on. It is clear Pritzker is swallowing the tough reality of the current state of Illinois, but if he chooses the route of more taxes and government spending, then Illinois will continue down the same spiraling path that forces families and businesses out.
Read Full ArticleFairness For All Illinoisans
In a 2016 poll conducted by the Paul Simon Institute, 72% of Illinois voters supported an independent commission responsible for drawing fair legislative maps. With that much support from Illinoisans, why hasn’t there been any movement on the issue?
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