State Rep. Dan Ugaste explained, “One of the reasons I'm going to be against it is in the last session … other bills were passed that provided for five weeks or 20 days of paid leave and 40 weeks or 200 days of unpaid leave and I just think it's a bit much to ask our businesses at this point to provide additional paid leave, be it for a good cause or not."
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.