EARN in Illinois

Illinois Network publications

• Understanding and Addressing Chicago’s Pension Funding Crisis

  • May 2, 2024
  • Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
  • Sarah Wasik, Ralph Martire
  EARN in the Midwest Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development Retirement

• Updated: Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System and Tier II Pension Law: An Overview

  • February 7, 2024
  • Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
  • Sarah Wasik, Ralph Martire
  EARN in the Midwest Retirement

• Illinois’ Tax System Widening Inequality

  • January 10, 2024
  • Children’s Advocates for Change
  • Mitch Lifson
  EARN in the Midwest Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development

• Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest

  • October 10, 2019
  • Common Good Iowa
  • Colin Gordon

  A half-century removed from the high-tide of the civil rights movement, progress on racial equity has slowed or stalled on many fronts. Nowhere is this more starkly evident than in the […]

  Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• The Cost of a Two-Year Property Tax Freeze For Illinois Schools: Up to $830 Million

  • June 23, 2017
  • Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
  Budgets and Taxes

• Fact Sheet: Paid Sick Leave Helps Working Parents and Their Families

  • May 1, 2017
  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Take-Up Rates for Driver’s Licenses: When Unauthorized Immigrants Can Get a License, How Many Do?

  • January 31, 2017
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick, and Cyierra Roldan

  How many unauthorized immigrants actually get licenses when driver’s license policies are expanded to allow them to apply? The Fiscal Policy Institute looks at the experience of five states and […]

  Immigration

• High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development

  • December 17, 2015
  • Keystone Research Center
  • Stephen Herzenberg

  In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs

• Issue Brief: Expanding the Base of Illinois’ Sales Tax to Consumer Services

  • May 20, 2015
  • Center for Tax and Budget Accountability

  This report identifies why expanding the base of the state sales tax to include consumer services—like pet grooming, haircuts, country club membership, health clubs, and lawn care—would simultaneously help to stabilize […]

  Budgets and Taxes

• Issue Brief: Tax Relief from the Phase-down of the Personal Income Tax Disproportionately Goes to Illinois’ Wealthiest

  • February 17, 2015
  • Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
  Budgets and Taxes