Since its peak in 2004, AFSCME Council 31 has seen a 21 percent drop in membership. It could be because just 23 cents of every dollar the union spends is on representing workers – what should be its core priority. Or it could be the millions of dollars AFSCME Council 31 spends on politics, or the exorbitant six-figure salaries it pays its bosses.
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.