Dori Meinert

Trade Wars: The European Union has threatened sanctions if the US doesn't end a federal tax break

Illinois owes thousands of jobs to a decades-old federal tax break aimed at encouraging companies to export products. Those jobs will be in jeopardy this…

Radical Move: Bush Administration wants to shift responsibility for most common housing subsidies

As a single mother with two kids, Carma Kimber thought her life was tough. When she became pregnant a third time, it got a lot tougher. But with federal…

A Bin Full of Subsidies? Lawmakers aren't debating whether to offer farmers an income safety net

When John Beetz’s great-great-grandfather came to America from Germany in the mid-1800s, he worked as a longshoreman in New York. Then he turned to…

What's Next: New federal rules threaten the services of Illinois' largest Medicaid provider

For more than a century. Cook County Hospital has served poor residents of Illinois' most urban and populous county.Many of those patients have nowhere…