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* Greg Hinz…
Conventional wisdom is that the state of Illinois is on an irreversible road to decline, burdened with an aging population, rising taxes, staggering pension debt and residents fleeing to the borders.
That ain’t necessarily so, says a DePaul University economist. In a wonderfully contrary blog post on the website New Geography, which focuses on socioeconomic changes in in cities and other areas, he concludes that, despite its very real warts, the Land of Lincoln in many ways is still holding its own.
In the piece, William Sander, professor emeritus at DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, confesses right up front to the state’s economic woes.
Specifically, he notes, both the state and the Chicago metropolitan area have lost population lately, state gross domestic product growth has been 0.2 percentage points below the national average since 2010 and high school students have tended to move out of state for their freshman year of college.
But appearances can be misleading, says Sander.
Go read the rest of Greg’s piece, but here are a couple of things of note…
Regarding population growth, it is important to point out that there has actually been negative domestic migration (more people leaving than entering) for most of the past century. At the same time, the state’s population doubled in size and the economy continued to grow. […]
While there has, in fact, been a net loss of college freshmen from Illinois to other states, there has not been a net loss of college students overall. One reason for this is that Illinois has a higher percentage of students in graduate and professional schools.
* The Question: Your “Move to Illinois” campaign slogans?
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Oct 17, 19 @ 2:34 pm
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