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Past Due: Could Public Employee Pay Ruling Be Beginning Of The End For Budget Impasse?

the Illinois Supreme Court bench in the court's main building in Springfield
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NPR Illinois

Some see a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling on public employee wages as a potential key to ending the state’s budget impasse.

Rachel Otwell sat down with Past Due host Jamey Dunn to talk about the case.

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