With job increases this past month, four sectors have recovered the job losses suffered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and state-mandated shutdowns. Construction, information, trade, transportation and utilities, and professional and business services have all recovered and are now above pre-COVID employment levels.
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.