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Rauner v the rest

Posted on November 18, 2015

The Economist

This article discusses the ongoing budget impasse in Illinois—the State is now in its fifth month without a budget. It uses information from the Civic Federation’s FY2016 State of Illinois Budget Roadmap to analyze the rise in the State’s backlog of unpaid bills following the decline in revenue the State experienced beginning January 1, 2015, due to the partial rollback of the Illinois income tax.