Goodbye, Jobs

Pub Date: 
Wed, 01/12/2011
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At least 1/12/11 will be easy to remember. On that day, with the state of Illinois mired at 48th place nationwide in job creation, Democratic leaders dragged through the lame-duck Legislature—with a post-midnight vote in the Senate—a tax plan sure to make many employers do their hiring somewhere else.

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Remember that Illinois needs 600,000 more people working to restore employment to the level it was a decade ago. Then burn 1/12/11 into your brain — along with the phrase "Goodbye, jobs."