
Another budget surprise: Pritzker hits up middle-class Illinoisans for more AFSCME raises, stipends and bennies
Pritzker’s new contract with AFSCME made it into the budget, and now Illinoisans are learning more about where their new tax dollars are going – to multi-year, guaranteed raises and potentially pensionable stipends for state workers who are already some of the highest paid government workers in the nation.