“'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."
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.
And the Red Cross is nowhere to be found.