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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois' Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Schuster</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A crisis exposes weaknesses.The COVID-19 economic crisis showed the danger of government making promises it can't afford. Here in Illinois, the crisis has served as a dress rehearsal for the kind of havoc the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pension crisis could inflict on the Illinois economy and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaker Madigan's Corruption Nurtured Illinois' Pension Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/16/speaker_madigans_corruption_nurtured_illinois_pension_debt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Schuster</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Corrupt politicians. Public pension debt. In Illinois, both of those phrases are redundant.
Standing at the crossroads of those shameful bits of local lingo is one man: Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan.
Madigan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s corruption could no longer be ignored when he was implicated in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Bail Out Feckless States Without Strings Attached]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Schuster</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 1, Illinois state workers got an automatic pay raise. In all, those raises will cost taxpayers $261 million. Meanwhile, nearly 1.4 million Illinoisans have filed for unemployment since COVID-19 shuttered much of the economy in March.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Other state governments have operated on...]]></description>
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