POLITICS

Nearly 90,000 People Fled J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois Between 2021 and 2022, Taking Billions in Income With Them

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Democratic governor turns a blind eye to state’s population decline Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D.) (Getty Images) More than 87,000 people fled Illinois between 2021 and 2022, causing the state to lose nearly $10 billion in income, according to the most recent IRS data. Governor J.B. Pritzker (D.) denies that Illinois is suffering from population

Biden Expands Overtime Protections for 1 Million Workers

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The new increase was made ‘based on the methodology used by the prior administration in the 2019 overtime rule update.’ The Biden administration extended overtime protections on July 1 for one million workers making less than $43,888 a year, and President Joe Biden pledged to expand those protections in 2025 to another 3 million workers,

FCC to Consider Mobile Hot Spot Program for Low-Income Learners

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Schools and libraries would lend out Wi-Fi hot spots to users who don’t have internet access at home. Now that the Affordable Connectivity Program is insolvent, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is pitching another way to provide internet service to low-income students when school is out: Let them “borrow” Wi-Fi hot spots from public schools