Richard Porter: There is no guarantee of continued employment in the Illinois Constitution, just limits on changes to certain benefit plans while someone is employed. But when employment ends, so does participation in the state’s benefit plans. The terms of a new offer for new employment are constrained only by state law, the labor market and political will, not the Constitution.
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.