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The county is expecting a general fund shortfall of $102.6 million, thanks mostly to higher wages and fringe benefits when its current contracts with union employees expire. Its health fund, meanwhile, is projecting a $108.8 million deficit thanks to a significant drop in patient revenues.
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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Uh oh PPF. Looks like you’re going back to work pretty soon. Hopefully you’ve kept your skills up to date.
Preparing is the key, screwing the system
This is only going to get worse as businesses and individual flee Illinois wasteful tax and spend culture.
$211M is about two percent of CC’s 2025 budget. Just a little belt-tightening would erase that deficit. All it would take is for CC to be a responsible steward of taxpayer money and not assume we have infinitely deep pockets.
Cook County needs to stop taxing suburban Cook County to support Chicago’s progressive agenda How many suburban residents are going to receive guaranteed income? Where is the healthcare for suburban residents? Very little if any healthcare services in the suburbs.
If you want to turn Chicago into an illegal immigrant magnet then you should expect higher costs for uninsured at Cook County Hospital. This is a self inflicted wound and is easily solved. The state, city and county could partner with ICE to help deport illegal immigrants and their costs for covering uninsured patients would drop dramatically. Heck, they could just station ICE agents at the door of the ER and they would save a ton of money. I’ll bet a couple of guys wearing ICE halloween costumes could do the trick. As far as costs increasing because of a… Read more »
We want their labor? We want the job done. We don’t get a choice of who we want to do the job, do we?
Absolutely on point and yet the voters will re-elect politicians like Preckwinkle each and every time. The situation is the will of the people so who are we to complain?
But, what will happen in the next election? The moron voters of Cook County will put all of these thieves back in office. There will never be an escape.
It is honestly mind boggling how stupid these elected officials are. The state is broke and Cook County is broke. But it is the same taxpayers they keep thinking they can bleed to death to support their retirement. What don’t they understand?
Illinois is the state ,Chicago the city, business schools should use as examples of financial mismanagement.
Uh oh! Taxwinkle the Octopus better find some more people to wrap her tentacles around, turn upside down and shake the last dollar they have out of them to continue to provide for the community and continue with their “ guaranteed incomes!”.
Why is it know one in press asks or provides data on the number of collective bargained union cc employees hired with one time ARPA-COVID funds? (same for city, state, CRAZY 9,000 units of gov)…who’da thunk, looks like none of these heroes are getting laid-off. Just non-collective bargained employees and contracted spending. Preparer to pay-up for all the hires hired with spent ARPA-COVID funds chumbolones!!!!
Where did you learn English?
Can you see the malfeasance? It’s right in front of you.
Well, my goodness, of course it would be increased salaries and benefits…gotta enhance those government employees comp pROgrams! Otherwise, might have to cut patronage jobs and someone’s brother in-law might have to get a real job or they might vote for someone else. and of course, we couldn’t ask the Government to right size the employees when their revenue drops…nope, just go back to the tax well and get more. The Patient “revenue” she talks about is actually more of our tax dollars from the fed to pay for Medicaid. That’s her “revenue” that she will fall short of next… Read more »