According to Therese McGuire, a professor of strategy at Kellogg, the state is doing a reasonable job managing the situation. Still, “it’s a structural deficit we face in this state. We’ve got revenues increasing at a slower pace than spending. And so we balance the budget this year, but if we don’t change either growth rate, give us a few months: we’ll have a deficit.”
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.