Work one day, get paid for whole month could end for Illinois lawmakers
Illinois lawmakers are currently paid for the entire month, even if they resign before the end of it. A new bill could change that.
Illinois Forward: A 5-year plan for balanced budgets, declining debt and tax relief
The years 2010 through 2019 will go down in Illinois history as a decade of public policy failure and economic decline. High fixed costs for pensions and government worker health care have prevented the state from balancing its budget in any year since 2001. Since the Great Recession in 2008, the state’s fiscal imbalance has...
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