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Obamanomics: Food Stamp Growth Outpaces Jobs In Illinois During "Recovery"

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Submitted by Michael Lucci via The Illinois Policy Institute,

Illinois is the only state in the Midwest to have added more people to food-stamp rolls than to employment rolls during the recovery from the Great Recession. Job losses from the Great Recession occurred from January 2008 to January 2010, and since then, states have had five-and-a-half years of recovery.

During the recovery from the Great Recession, the Land of Lincoln, alone in the Midwest, had more people enter the food-stamps program than start jobs. Food-stamps growth in Illinois has outpaced jobs creation by a 5-4 margin.

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In every other Midwestern state, jobs growth has dramatically outpaced food-stamps growth during the recovery. In fact, in every other state in the region, jobs growth dwarfs food-stamps growth. But during the recovery, Illinois put more people on food stamps than every other Midwestern state combined.

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Manufacturing has borne the brunt of Illinois’ policy failures. From the state’s broken workers’ compensation system, to the highest property taxes in the region, to the lack of a Right-to-Work law while surrounding states enact Right to Work, Illinois has the worst policy environment in the Midwest for manufacturers.

The result for Illinois factory workers? The Land of Lincoln has put 25 people on food stamps for every manufacturing job created during the recession recovery.

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And the recovery that Illinois’ manufacturers have experienced has been especially anemic. After losing 117,000 manufacturing jobs during the recession, Illinois has only regained 17,400 of those factory jobs since January 2010. Meanwhile, the other Great Lakes states have pulled far ahead of Illinois during the recovery. Michigan has added 135,600 manufacturing jobs, Indiana has added 80,400, Ohio has added 74,500 and Wisconsin has added 48,700.

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Illinois’ lack of jobs growth, especially in blue-collar industries, has driven more and more Illinoisans to dependency on government, while residents of the other Great Lakes states join the ranks of the employed and leave the food-stamps program. Michigan surpassed Illinois in 2014 for manufacturing jobs created, while Illinois has surpassed Michigan for the percentage of residents on food stamps. Illinoisans depend on food stamps more than do the residents of any other state in the region.

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Obamanomics may just be as bad as Abenomics...

 

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Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:59 | 6611673 world_debt_slave
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the hidden soup lines and corporate welfare

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:00 | 6611679 38BWD22
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Obama on Obamanomics:

"It's all George Bush's fault."

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:01 | 6611687 LowerSlowerDela...
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Praise be to Dear Leader.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:08 | 6611722 surf0766
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Let a week of crying for his wonderfulness to begin

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:30 | 6611854 NoDebt
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The Obama presidential library will, surely, open it's doors to the homeless and downtrodden of Illinois, offering them a place to sleep, read, freely access the internet and deficate in the archive stacks.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:35 | 6611874 Zero-Hegemon
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And a shrine to Frank Marshall Davis, where young communists can light a candle for progress

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:51 | 6611969 froze25
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What do you have to provide via a legal requirement to get on food stamps in NY?  I wonder if I can qualify.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:01 | 6612024 heisenberg991
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You need to be employed and drive a McLaren 650S.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:02 | 6612032 Sparehead
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"The Obama Presidential Homeless Shelter" has a ring of credibility to it. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:01 | 6611686 Central Bankster
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Obama number 1!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:06 | 6611714 junction
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Food stamps for most Americans, Treasury money drops in the form of QE to the top 0.01%. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:29 | 6611844 j0nx
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The poor get welfare and food stamps, the rich get zero percent free FED funny money to invest as they please along with insider information and the middle class gets to pay for it all. Any they wonder why most people are fed up.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:34 | 6611867 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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THE savior for the poor! Without obama they would have starved due to Bush's presidencey. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:08 | 6612070 Takeaction2
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For some fun at night if you have an android phone... or you can even put this on your PC. Scanner Radio allows you to listen to all of the top police scanners LIVE.  I like to click this on at night and listen to the Chicago feed.  You will here the dispatchers...over and over in a un-emotianal voice...
.

5 shots fired on the corner of .....

Naked man standing in the street at...

10 men fighting at.... 

.

The calls just come in every 15 seconds.  Here is the app.  I really can not imagine being a police officer in this shit storm.  And if you are a cop...and are reading this...Thank You for dealing with the FSA.
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scannerradio&hl=en

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:59 | 6611674 ghengis86
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This is not a glitch, it's a feature.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:59 | 6611675 dimwitted economist
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it's a recovery

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:06 | 6611711 KnuckleDragger-X
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Soon they'll reach 3rd world status and we can send in UN 'peacekeepers' to help with the rape, pillage and burn...on the barbarian side.....

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:05 | 6611703 847328_3527
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O'Bama's home state?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:18 | 6611781 NYPoke
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As much as I detest Obama, you can't lay all this on him.  The State is run by Chicago & it is run by crooks.  They may be legalized crooks but crooks nonetheless.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:24 | 6611817 Bastiat
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And the dirty Chicago machine is where he was trained.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:02 | 6612039 American Psycho
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And my wife continues to ask why I don't want to move back "home" to Illinois.  If I continue forwarding her these articles maybe she will stop asking. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:05 | 6612055 NYPoke
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Yes, yes, it is, though much of his training was in Indonesia.  Islam & Liberalism...very similar.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:06 | 6611704 The Pope
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ObamaSoup - Long Okra futures

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:05 | 6611706 Kilgore Trout
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Can we build a fence around the place and make the Illini pay for it?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:07 | 6611717 The Pope
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Snake Plissken doesn't give a fuck about your war or President

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:09 | 6611726 Falling Down
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Right up there with New Yawk.

Forward, Soviet!

.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:10 | 6611730 PhiBetaZappa
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Stores are now starting to do 'layaways' for Christmas of 2017. It's already too late for 2016.

How's that for recovery optimism.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:11 | 6611740 Dr. Engali
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Seriously? I never heard that.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:22 | 6611804 CheapBastard
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Yeah, and Thanksgiving decorations are in boxes ready for the shelves. Stores are in panic/survival mode trying to grab that last consumer dollar in the poor slobs wallet. There's only so many depression dollars to go around and a consumer who can spend is as rare as the Blue-Footed, Orange-Beaked, Do-Do Bird.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:50 | 6611959 Skateboarder
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I saw the local Target starting Halloween placement two weeks ago - didn't think it was too far out of line.

And then there are those dedicated Halloween costume stores that occupy retail space year-round. Gotta wonder how they stay in business - guess the payout from Halloween season pays for rent for the remaining months?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:54 | 6611986 froze25
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Plenty of people do various themed based parties all year long.  Not to mention the sexual aspect of doing some costume activities with your partner in those endeavors.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:00 | 6612017 ghengis86
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If they're anything like firework stores around me, yes. Know a guy that owns one. Makes 95% of his money in three summer months. The rest of the year, he drives a snow plow truck or does odd jobs here and there to stay busy. Has a nice house, cars, toys, etc. makes a good living. Gets the container shipment from China, straight from the docks. Mark ups are anywhere from 500-2000%. Take a few containers at $25-30k, turn it into $250-300k, rent a storefront for $24k, pay a few minimum wagers to keep the lights on in the slow months, pay some taxes and import/shipping fees, bank the rest.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:11 | 6611736 More Ammo
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:17 | 6611773 Thisisbullishright
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Illinois is a SHITHOLE!

That is all....

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:07 | 6612695 BandGap
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I just work here.

It is both funny and interesting that every time the Chicago locals run up against a payment of some sort (let's say a pension fund) they ALWAYS look to tax the shit out of something first. Everyone in Chicago thinks things are going great because they are still going. The city does look nice and the killing fields are places tourists don't/shouldn't go anyway so from that aspect everything is covered.

But when the EBTs get pulled all hell is going to break loose. These people have a strong sense of entitlement. They want theirs, they are owed theirs and they will get or take theirs.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 17:27 | 6613107 Lucky Leprachaun
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If you took out Chicago Illinois would be fine.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:18 | 6611782 Nostradumbass
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If O'bummer had stayed in Illinois maybe his skills as community organizer and state congressman could have been better put to use to stave off this failure? Oh wait, he is a promoter of dependence on the state... nevermind.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:22 | 6611806 ghostzapper
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Flak Vest sales and pawn shops should be hopping in Chicago.  Not enough to create more new jobs?  

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:56 | 6611994 Herodotus
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Pawn shops only prosper when there are buyers for the merchandise.  All sellers and no buyers isn't a good formula.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:23 | 6611810 Infinite QE
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I still remember the Chicago Sun Times newspaper headline when Obummer won the senate. "Kenyan-born super star..."

Funny how that got scrubbed out of existence.

 

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:29 | 6611843 henry chucho
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Food stamps pay $200 for a half hour of work,filling out the application..A minimum wage job pays $2.50 an hour,after taxes,and expenses.Po' Amerikans aint as dumb as you think,that means I have to work 1 full month,just to buy what I can get for free..

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:32 | 6611859 Zero-Hegemon
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Who run Bartertown?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:34 | 6611869 XitSam
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I know, I'll buy some lottery tickets to make up for my lack of a job!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:35 | 6611876 Boxed Merlot
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Illinoisans depend on food stamps...

 

Just out of curiosity, can someone please show how "Illinoisans" is to be pronounced?  I mean, how should it be spelled phonetically?    (In "English")

 

just wondering

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:41 | 6611909 Zymurguy
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ill - i - noy - ans

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 23:11 | 6614358 Boxed Merlot
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Thanks.

So it's like being sick and an annoyance at the same time.

Got it.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:40 | 6611903 Zymurguy
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Hey Obamamom!  Meatloaf!  Obamamom!  MEATLOAF!

What the fuck is he doing in the oval office?

(haven't heard much from our gentle leader in some days now - must have gotten a good deal on some greens fees)

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:45 | 6611932 madcows
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Fuck the Government!  Fuck them all.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:13 | 6612105 Mr. Bones
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I suspect that the excuse would be the same one that they use for Chicago's gun crime: it's the surrounding states faults for having wrong laws.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:15 | 6612123 Vlad the Inhaler
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Obama runs the Fed?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:17 | 6612142 venturen
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just think Obama is bring the Illinois model to the rest of the country. Corrupt government destroying private economy...Obama will pardon Rod any day now

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:35 | 6612253 theyjustcantstop
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same happens, just as public sector union pensions, in every large democratic majority held city in america, pisses me off our tax dollars aren't considered political contributions. 

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:38 | 6612867 Secret Weapon
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These numbers would look a lot better if they counted all of the Illinois politicians in prison who stamp license plates as manufacturing jobs. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 17:25 | 6613094 Lucky Leprachaun
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This article overlooks the fact the cited jobs growth has been from part-time barista-style service jobs replacing good manufacturing jobs.

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