Joel Kotkin: Illinois is in a competition

Joel Kotkin, author of "THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: America in 2050" spoke at an Illinois Policy Institute special event on Oct. 2, 2011. We had a chance to meet up with Kotkin after his talk for a special look at Illinois and the competition it faces in the years ahead.

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He missed one of the most important points:
Cut the size of the public sector—drastically.
Since this is not even recognized in Illinois, the state has no hope. It will become another welfare dependency, like Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.