Pritzker's $49.6 billion spending request is an increase of nearly $3 billion from last year's proposal. It includes a nearly billion dollar boost for education. That includes allotting $250 million toward early childhood education, with increased pay for child care workers and added preschool slots.
Why the concern now? They never have before. Illinois is doomed, the pension time bomb is exploding. All the money in the world is not enough to cover the increasing liability. PPF and the likes of them have gotten their wish, that is to destroy the economic lives of everyone but themselves.
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.
Why the concern now? They never have before. Illinois is doomed, the pension time bomb is exploding. All the money in the world is not enough to cover the increasing liability. PPF and the likes of them have gotten their wish, that is to destroy the economic lives of everyone but themselves.