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Illinois Second To Last in Residents' Income Recovering Since Beginning of Recession

The rebound of Illinoisans’ income since the recession is second-to-last in the country, but taxpayers have paid more in taxes than most of the country during the same time period. That’s according to Pew Charitable Trusts’ latest Fiscal 50 data.

Pew Research Director Barb Rosewicz (row-SHAY-vitz) gathered data of all 50 states from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and found that since the start of the recession in 2007, personal income in Illinois has done poorly compared to other states.

However, the amount taxpayers have given Illinois in revenue has bounced back in the past eight years.

Rosewicz says Illinois’ growth over the past eight years was only half a percent, beating Nevada’s one-tenth of a percent growth. Meanwhile, Pew’s data shows since the beginning of the recession Illinois’ neighboring states either doubled or tripled the growth of the Land of Lincoln.

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