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by Matthew Blake
1:51pm
Mon Sep 17, 2012
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Why Pat Quinn's Relationship With Labor Is On The Rocks

Labor

On August 10, Gov. Pat Quinn visited Caterpillar machinists on a picket line in Joliet, donating $10,000 to a union strike fund. But Quinn offered no position on the walkout, except bromides such as “believe in yourselves” to machinists who had been on strike for more than three months.

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by Matthew Blake
3:31pm
Tue Jun 19, 2012
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Poll: Small Business Owners Actually Like ACA

The country’s largest small business lobbying group – the National Federation of Independent Businesses – is one of the plaintiff’s looking to overturn the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision likely to be announced within the next week.

But a poll released today by a different small business lobbying group – Small Business Majority – found that small business owners in eight states polled (both red and blue, including Illinois) favor the landmark national health care reform and want the Supreme Court to keep it intact. Read more »