“Failure to sustain structural solutions by either increasing ongoing revenues or containing costs to offset the financial impact of a new CTU contract could mark a turning point in the board’s recent positive financial trend and jeopardize its fiscal stability,” according to S&P analyst Ying Huang.
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.