“New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut topped a list of states that saw more residents moving out than arriving from other states in 2018, continuing a trend of people leaving the Northeast and the Midwest for growing cities in the Mountain West and South …”
Coincidentally, or not, New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut are also the three lowest-ranking states in the nation based on Truth in Accounting’s “Taxpayer Burden” measure of state governments’ financial condition.
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.