Dupage Policy Journal

Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, Wirepoints | Feb 14, 2023

Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment

New jobs data release: Illinois unemployment rate worsens to 4.7 percent, now nation’s 2nd-worst

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, Wirepoints | Dec 27, 2022

New jobs data release: Illinois unemployment rate worsens to 4.7 percent, now nation’s 2nd-worst

Four more states move to a flat tax. Illinoisans were right to reject Pritzker’s progressive income tax

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, Wirepoints | Jul 19, 2022

To all those Illinoisans who opposed the progressive tax back in 2020: you’re being proven more right every day. Illinois would have become even less competitive at a time when more and more states are increasing their economic competitiveness by moving to a flat income tax.This year alone, four states decided to transition their individual state income tax from progressive to flat:Iowa passed a law that will turn its progressive tax into a 3.9% flat tax by 2026.Georgia’s income tax is scheduled to convert to a 5.49% flat rate by 2024. Mississippi will go from a progressive tax to a flat tax next year.Arizona, after a lengthy court battle, has finally won the right to transition to a 2.5 percent flat income tax in 2024.There are also movements in Wisconsin and Oklahoma to make those states’ taxes flat as well.Both Georgia and Arizona’s change to a flat structure are not automatic and must  meet certain financial conditions to occur.

Your breakfast costs 45 percent more than it did two years ago. Who’s to blame for such sky-high inflation?

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, Wirepoints | Jun 21, 2022

The federal government has failed  spectacularly to manage the risk of inflation.