Anonymous's blog Not all illegal immigrants into the U.S. are Mexican and there’s more to immigration law reform than getting the Hispanic vote. I learned this at a program in Chicago sponsored by an organization called Ireland Network Chicago, or IN ...
Anonymous's blog Chicago and the Midwest may be tired of being called the “flyover territory,” but it’s true. Legions of Europeans and Asians who vacation in the United States call regularly at New York, Washington, San Francisco, especially Orlando, ...
Anonymous's blog by Steve Brick, Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs President Obama is coming to Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, on Friday, March 15, and he is expected to talk about energy polic ...
Anonymous's blog Once upon a time, our economy seemed to obey some rules, passed down from Adam Smith, taught in all universities, assumed by everyone who thought about the economy. We called these laws Economics-101, and we ignored them at our peril ...
Anonymous's blog You can’t keep a good idea down. Two old ideas have resurfaced. If enacted, both would strengthen both our American economy and the global economy. Both are so good that it’s a shame they haven’t become policy already. As they say, b ...
Anonymous's blog Chicago is by any measure one of the world’s top ten global cities, a glamorous and glittering headquarters of the global economy. It also is one of the four most miserable cities in the country. Well, which is it? Global or miserabl ...
Anonymous's blog As the right-to-work movement makes progress in the Midwest, it’s time to ask if these laws do any good for the states that adopt them, or for their workers. The answer: Not so’s you’d notice. Certainly, nothing that you can prove. T ...
Anonymous's blog There's a new community foundation in St. Joseph, Missouri, that is trying something really new-- to marshal the funds it oversees to promote economic development in St. Joseph and the northwestern Missouri region that neighbors ...
Anonymous's blog A recent study has come up with some shocking news: life expectancy of the least educated white Americans, both men and women, is going down. White women without a high school diploma now live five years less on the average than they ...
Anonymous's blog Just as President Obama and Congress are moving to solve the nation's immigration problem, the shape of the problem is changing. Across the Midwest, companies-- mostly agriculture-related-- are hiring many fewer Mexican and othe ...
