Issue Position: A Balanced Budget
Issue Position
Issues: Government Budget and Spending
The centerpiece of our legislative session was a balanced budget for the 2020 fiscal year. The end product is fiscally responsible and allocates over one billion dollars to pay down our state's debt and backlog of unpaid bills. This will help to slash interest costs and continue to fulfill our pension obligations. The budget provides a significant funding increase for our public schools, and invests more dollars in higher education. The budget boosts funding for mental health services, adds new resources for DCFS, raises the minimum wage, increases funding for early childhood education programs, creates violence prevention and job training programs, and funds increases in mental health programming.
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