Category: Illinois Press

Findings from TUA’s Illinois pension project are featured at the Illinois Policy Institute website. Illinois’ current unfunded state government pension liabilities total approximately $200 billion under Moody’s Investors Service’s new methodology. The Illinois Policy...

TUA’s commentary on a new “rain tax” in DuPage County was featured in an article at My Suburban Life. The president of Taxpayers United of America called upon DuPage County taxpayers Tuesday to protest the...

Rae Ann McNeilly, Executive Director of Taxpayers United for America, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune on legislation allowing DuPage County to consolidate government. How many government officials does it take to change a...

TUA’s study on Chicago police pensions was referenced in an article at The Globe and Mail. It turns out Jane Jacobs was wrong. Rationalist urban planners weren’t the worst thing that ever happened to...

Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United for America, was mentioned in the following article by William Kelly at Chicago Now. Chicago, Illinois, June 24, 2013 – I read with some interest “The Fight for...

Findings from TUA’s Illinois pension project are featured in this story from the Palatine Patch. Two former District 15 employees and one former District 211 employee made the Taxpayers United of America list of...

Findings from TUA’s Illinois pension project are featured in this story from the Northwest Herald. The public pension news this week didn’t originate out of Springfield, where lawmakers wasted another week without passing real...