Unemployment rates swelled in all Illinois metro areas over the past year, primarily because of business closures in response to limiting the spread of COVID-19. With that, nonfarm jobs fell in all of the state’s metro regions, 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.
New job numbers show impact of Pritzker and lockdowns on Illinois