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Manufacturers, retailers lobby in Springfield as lawmakers enter final stretch

Manufacturers, retailers lobby in Springfield as lawmakers enter final stretch

— April 27, 2023

SPRINGFIELD – Business leaders from throughout Illinois gathered Wednesday, April 26 in Springfield to share their concerns about the state’s business climate and to discuss pending…

  • Lawmakers announce bipartisan plan on unemployment debt

    Lawmakers announce bipartisan plan on unemployment debt

    — November 30, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – Lawmakers on Tuesday, Nov. 29 announced a bipartisan plan to use state revenues to pay down the remaining $1.4 billion in debt taken on by the state’s Unemployment…

  • Lawmakers tackle unprecedented unemployment deficit

    Lawmakers tackle unprecedented unemployment deficit

    — July 20, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – Since economic shutdowns began and COVID-19 death counts started to rise in March 2020, national unemployment rates have hovered at historically high numbers, stressing…

  • Republicans take aim at Pritzker’s proposed tax changes

    Republicans take aim at Pritzker’s proposed tax changes

    — February 17, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed $41.6 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year relies, in part, on ending nine tax incentives for businesses in an effort to…

  • Workers’ Compensation Commission repeals emergency COVID-19 rule

    Workers’ Compensation Commission repeals emergency COVID-19 rule

    — April 27, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — A state commission voted to repeal a new rule that would have made workers’ compensation benefits available to essential employees who contracted COVID-19 without…

  • Fall veto session looms with unemployment fix still not decided

    Fall veto session looms with unemployment fix still not decided

    — October 1, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – The deficit in the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund remains over $4.3 billion and interest payments on the debt began accruing on Sept. 6. Thus far, more…

  • Labor, business leaders call for support amid pandemic recovery

    Labor, business leaders call for support amid pandemic recovery

    — February 17, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – Business and labor leaders called for continued support for businesses and unemployed workers Wednesday, Feb. 17 in a state Senate hearing ahead of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s…

  • Equity bill aims to protect conviction records, end wage disparity

    Equity bill aims to protect conviction records, end wage disparity

    — January 27, 2021

    Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing “Lame Duck Look Back” series in which Capitol News Illinois is following up on the major bills that passed both chambers of the…

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