Illinois FY10 State Budget: Bad News, Period

Commentary

By State Rep. Greg Harris
(D – 13th District)

If you are hoping to find good news about our FY10 State Budget, you will not find it here. Illinois now joins the rest of the country in having approved a new budget for our new fiscal year, but there is more bad news than there is good. According to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, state revenues across the country have declined more than 20% in…