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Advocates hoped the state would become less reliant on large institutions for people with developmental disabilities when they filed a lawsuit in 2005, alleging that Illinois’ failure to adequately fund community living options ended up segregating people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from society by forcing them to live in institutions. Negotiations resulted in a consent decree, a court-supervised improvement plan. Now, the state has asked a judge to consider ending the consent decree, citing significant increases in the number of people receiving community-based services.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If Pritzker wasn’t busy spending money on illegal immigrants who enter this country and begin stealing left and right, maybe the resources would be there to help unfortunate individuals like this young lady. A state with a high tax burden like Illinois should be caring for the most vulnerable first. Instead we have political grifters and illegals taking those resources.