"State and local governments are shouldering the rapidly growing costs of assisting migrants and asylum seekers as their numbers increase in the U.S," according to a new report from S&P Global Ratings. "If this issue remains significant enough for long enough, the increase in costs and social service requirements could affect states' and local governments' credit quality."
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.