Illinois Retail Merchants Association’s Rob Karr said, “We’re on life support, we’re buying time. It’s far from back to normal.” One area Karr said the state is failing business is adapting to the pandemic by easing burdens on small businesses, such as the state law increasing the minimum wage over several years.
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.