At a recent committee hearing, Illinois lawmakers were provided with a mixed message regarding the economy and State budget for the coming fiscal year. Officials from the Illinois Department of Revenue explained that although the State…
In the fall of 2011, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed and Governor Lincoln Chafee signed landmark pension reform legislation intended to end a pension funding crisis and make retirement obligations for public employees more…
The State of Illinois’ new pension law is expected to reduce statutorily…
The Civic Federation's legislative priorities for 2014 include public employee pension and retiree healthcare reforms, requiring the…
The State of Illinois hopes to receive approximately $3.25 billion in new federal Medicaid funding under a proposal to be submitted to the federal government in March. The estimated amount of new federal funding in the State’s…
Although the most significant change in Illinois’ new pension law consists of a reduction in…
Despite savings from recently enacted pension reforms,…
States inevitably face lawsuits when they attempt to ease budgetary pressures by cutting pension payments to current employees and retirees. While the legal battle over Illinois’…
The following posts were among the most highly read on the Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability’s blog in 2013 and represent some of the most closely followed Illinois fiscal issues this year:…
On December 18, 2013, the Illinois General Assembly held its first hearing on the plan to apply for a federal waiver to overhaul the State’s Medicaid program…
