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New Illinois budget covers services to the poor

On July 6, Illinois lawmakers ended a record-setting, two-year budget impasse by overriding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vetoes of a spending plan and an income tax increase.

Illinois has a budget! Now what?

I moved away from Illinois in 1995 when the state pension deficit was a trifling $20 billion. Moving back to Illinois in 2017, a $105 billion deficit now confronts me and those of you who never left. Our state’s unmet pension obligations are crippling.

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