While we don’t know when the pandemic will end, we do know what comes next: Illinois’ grinding fiscal crisis will become catastrophic. Once the virus is under control, political leaders must turn their focus to a single mission: cutting Illinois’ $430 billion in government retirement liabilities and tens of billions in state and local bonded debt.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.