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Issue Position: Fixing the State Budget

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

All three ratings agencies (Standard and Poor's, Fitch, and Moody's) are downgrading Illinois. The state is borrowing billions just to stay afloat. Census data shows that about 240,000 more Illinoisans lived in poverty in 2008, compared to 2000, yet there are over 4,000 former State of Illinois employees receiving pensions over $100,000/year.


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