SEIU HCII takes anywhere from $264 to $1,260 a year from its members’ paychecks, according to its report with the U.S. Department of Labor; the workers SEIU HCII represents may earn $17.25 an hour as personal assistants or $33.91 for a whole day as child care providers. Yet just 22% of the union’s spending is on representing workers, according to the same report.
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.