As of April 2024, Illinois tied for the third-highest unemployment rate in the country at 4.8 percent, with over 313,000 people unemployed at the same time it had 385,000 jobs ready and waiting to be filled. So why is any Illinoisan unemployed? Occupational licensing laws.
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.