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The hollowing-out of state government: IDES
Sunday, May 3, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’ve been meaning to post this thread for days and never got around to it. One important note: Manar states that Illinois spent $288.8 million on IDES in Fiscal Year 2008 vs. $275 million this fiscal year. But he didn’t adjust for inflation. Doing that would show Illinois spent $338.89 million in adjusted dollars in FY08, which is $64 million more than this fiscal year, an almost 19 percent historical reduction. As far as agency operations goes, current spending is almost $34 million, or 17.5 percent below where it was in FY08 after adjusting for inflation…
Back in February, Gov. Pritzker proposed adding 226 new staff at IDES “to improve administration of the Unemployment Insurance Program.” That was the second-highest proposed headcount increase of any state agency, behind only IDOC.
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