HOW MANY HOMELESS AMERICANS NOW DUE TO THE ECONOMIC AND BORDER POLICES OF TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED WITH OPEN BORDERS???
Deep Blue Illinois Ranks Dead Last on Economic Racial Equality
The “deep blue” State of Illinois ranks dead last in racial equality, according to a recent study by personal finance company WalletHub.
WalletHub’s findings come despite the ultra-“woke” policies of the state’s controlling Democrats.
The study looked at how blacks and whites are faring economically in all 50 states by measuring poverty rates, homelessness, employment, home ownership, household income, job status, and other metrics.
The resulting list did not break down along red-and-blue state lines as other economic lists have tended to do. But the study did show that a state with some of America’s most liberal, left-wing, “woke” policies has failed miserably to create the climate its minority citizens need to find the opportunities for economic success.
The only other area in the country worse than Illinois was ultra-left District of Columbia, which came in in the 51st spot and is also failing its minority population.
Several other blue states also figured in the top ten.
Illinois has a “progressive” income tax policy. It has set-asides for blacks, Hispanics, women, and other historically disadvantaged groups; it has endeavored to undermine its criminal codes to free more people from jails, it has a growing list of handouts for illegal aliens, and Democrats control both houses of the state legislature and every single state-wide office.
Illinois is very proud of it’s many “equity” policies to help its minority citizens. Yet the state is an incredible, crushing failure in achieving its own goals.
As Wirepoints noted in reporting on the study:
Illinois appears to be a fugitive from one of the most widely recognized laws of economics, which is that there’s a tradeoff between equity and efficiency. Sacrificing some economic growth is usually regarded as the price of achieving more equity, as that rule has it. Illinois has paid that price. It has had no net job growth in 20 years. Its total tax burden is consistently ranked among the highest in the nation. Its GDP growth since 2019 is the tenth worst in the nation. And its people are fleeing.
As Breitbart News reported, recent numbers show that Illinois lost nearly 150,000 citizens to red states, including Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. It has lost even more to nearby states, such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Kentucky. And this net loss of citizens has been ongoing for the better part of a decade.
For all its left-wing, equity-minded policies, the Land of Lincoln remains one of America’s top places to be from.
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Illinois has a “progressive” income tax policy. It has set-asides for blacks, Hispanics, women, and other historically disadvantaged groups; it has endeavored to undermine its criminal codes to free more people from jails, it has a growing list of handouts for illegal aliens, and Democrats control both houses of the state legislature and every single state-wide office.
Illinois is very proud of it’s many “equity” policies to help its minority citizens. Yet the state is an incredible, crushing failure in achieving its own goals.
As Wirepoints noted in reporting on the study:
Illinois appears to be a fugitive from one of the most widely recognized laws of economics, which is that there’s a tradeoff between equity and efficiency. Sacrificing some economic growth is usually regarded as the price of achieving more equity, as that rule has it. Illinois has paid that price. It has had no net job growth in 20 years. Its total tax burden is consistently ranked among the highest in the nation. Its GDP growth since 2019 is the tenth worst in the nation. And its people are fleeing.
As Breitbart News reported, recent numbers show that Illinois lost nearly 150,000 citizens to red states, including Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. It has lost even more to nearby states, such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Kentucky. And this net loss of citizens has been ongoing for the better part of a decade.
For all its left-wing, equity-minded policies, the Land of Lincoln remains one of America’s top places to be from.
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston, or Truth Social @WarnerToddHuston
Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is hoping to spend $25 million in taxpayer money to pay rent for thousands of illegal aliens in the city.
Since August of last year, more than 10,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of Chicago — many on buses sent from Texas.
Now, Johnson is hoping to secure $25 million in taxpayer money to provide six months of rent to more than 6,500 illegal aliens. That move would come as rent for local Chicagoans has skyrocketed in recent years.
Median rent prices in Chicago, currently, are nearing $2,000 a month — a $120 increase compared to the same time last year, when rents were about $1,700 a month, according to Zillow.
Chart via Zillow
Meanwhile, Johnson will also be placing more than 300 mostly single male border crossers and illegal aliens in a sports center in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Years of research show that the nation’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants annually, in addition to millions of illegal aliens, sends housing and rental prices surging for working and middle class Americans.
Last month, left-wing New York Magazine made the admission in a piece noting that mass immigration is “bad for housing prices.”
In 2013, a study by the Michael Bloomberg-funded New American Economy, which promotes mass immigration, explained how the importing of tens of millions of illegal and legal immigrants over decades has raised housing costs by $3.7 trillion for the next generation of homebuyers but spun the figure as the creation of “housing wealth.”
“The 40 million immigrants in the United States represent a powerful purchasing class — reflected by their demand for housing, as well as for other locally produced goods and services — that bolster the value of homes in communities across the country,” the study admitted.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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