Illinois Reps. Mike Halpin and Tony McCombie were asked how they would address rising unemployment insurance costs. Halpin supports putting much of the state's $1.7 billion surplus into the unemployment trust fund, "so that cost does not translate into increased cost for business or decrease in benefits for our unemployed workers."
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.