The state’s unemployment rate was +1.1 percent higher than the national unemployment rate reported for November. The national unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in November, up +0.1 percent from the previous month. The Illinois unemployment rate was up +0.6% from a year ago when it was 4.7 percent.
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.