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Past Due: Illinois Not Prepared For A Recession

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Eric Skiff

In 2008, the Great Recession helped to tip Illinois into a fiscal crisis it still hasn't recovered from. A new report from Standard & Poor's found that another even moderate recession would mean big trouble for the state's budget. ?

Illinois Issues editor Jamey Dunn sat down with Sean Crawford to talk about it. 

You can read the report here. 

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