"Illinois
has two very serious fiscal problems: 1) a large and growing gap between
sustainable revenues and projected spending levels, and 2) the
largest-in-the-nation unfunded pension liability. The December 2013 changes to
Illinois pension law — should they survive a constitutional challenge —
eliminate the unfunded pension liability problem over the next 25 years.
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Unfortunately,
the pension law changes do not even come close to solving the structural budget
deficit problem.
For
the past six years the Fiscal Futures Project at the University of Illinois’
Institute of Government and Public Affairs has developed a robust measure of
the state’s fiscal problems and a technique for projecting the gap between
total revenue and total spending into the future. Our measure is broad-based, takes
a long-term perspective, and focuses on sustainable revenue." READ MORE
Title: “Pension
reform law won’t fix Illinois’ fiscal woes”
Author: Richard F.
Dye
Source: Chicago SunTimes
Date Published: January
22, 2014
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