A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
Lisa, the entire Gen Assembly are not adhering to the Illinois constitution. Please put them all (include the governor) on notice that the state police will be throwing them all in jail. They are not fulfilling their oath of office…
Why not borrow from the pension funds themselves (rather than from the reserve fund) in order to pay current state employees. Then the pensioners would have both a contract right AND a promissory note to collect on!