WLS 890 AM
Don Wade and Roma interview Civic Federation President Laurence Msall about the Federation’s analysis of Governor Quinn’s proposed FY2010 Illinois state budget in this podcast available at wlsam.com. Mr. Msall discusses various aspects of the budget analysis in detail, focusing on issues in the state’s public pension and post-retirement benefits systems, explaining how the state has underfunded and mismanaged those systems, and the steps that the state needs to take to repair them.