{"id":3435,"date":"2006-11-17T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:58:04","slug":"illinois-legislature-we-control-the-horizontal-we-control-the-vertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/17\/illinois-legislature-we-control-the-horizontal-we-control-the-vertical\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Legislature: We Control The Horizontal, We Control The Vertical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/634EDFDBDDF78BFB862572280018ACDD?OpenDocument&#038;highlight=2%2C%22illinois%22+AND+%22minimum%22+AND+%22wage%22\" target=\"_new\">State Senate passes $7.50 hourly rate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amid warnings that it could cost jobs in border areas such as the Metro East, the Illinois Senate on Wednesday approved a $1 minimum wage increase that would keep the state&#8217;s pay scale above Missouri&#8217;s and ahead of a proposed federal increase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/sections\/news\/stories\/100688.asp\" target=\"_new\">Rate freeze plan clears committee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A proposal meant to spare consumers from double-digit electricity rate hikes next year easily cleared an Illinois House committee Tuesday, but its prospects of becoming law are uncertain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that the Illinois state government has helped raise costs and hold prices down, making businesses&#8217; decisions easy by removing them, the only question the legislators are leaving to its entrepreneur class is: <i>To what state should I move?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senate passes $7.50 hourly rate: Amid warnings that it could cost jobs in border areas such as the Metro East, the Illinois Senate on Wednesday approved a $1 minimum wage increase that would keep the state&#8217;s pay scale above Missouri&#8217;s and ahead of a proposed federal increase. Rate freeze plan clears committee: A proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18438,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}