Editorial | The ugly truth: State budget numbers hide the real story – Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

“'The bleeding has slowed, but we are still bleeding,' Richard Ciccarone, the Illinois-based president of Merritt Research Services, told The Bond Buyer. Despite revenue increases generated by tax hikes and a strong economy, state spending and increases in pension debt continue to drive a huge problem that legislators are doing their best to ignore."
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Mike Mike
6 years ago

And the Red Cross is nowhere to be found.

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