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A great new Illinois Policy Institute study series to follow: Part 1 - Spotlight on Spending
In October of 2009, the Illinois Policy Institute, CEO John Tillman, recognizing that state spending was out of control, flooded with waste and without a process to hold elected officials accountable for their spending decisions, envisioned a comprehensive tool to allow Illinois citizens to look at the details of state spending down to the agency, person and penny. http://www.illiniospolicy.org/news/article.asp?ArticleSource=1588
The tool used to achieve accountability, www.illinoisOpenGov.org, evolved from a modest beginning into what now has become a weekly Illinois Policy Institute Spotlight on Sending series. Its stated goal: "Highlighting wasteful or inefficient programs and spending with the goal of bringing more responsible spending and accountable government to Illinois." http://www.illinoispolicy.org/newes/article.asp?ArticleSource=2634
Mind the Gap: The disparity between public sector and statewide salaries, published June 2, 2010, is the Institute's first report in its new weekly Spotlight on Spending study series. Providing source material for the Institute's policy series will be www.IllinoisOpenGov.org, where additional information can be found about state spending, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (obtained through the Freedom of Information Act).
The Institute's disparity report shows Average Statewide and State Government Salary Comparisons. There are seventeen job title comparisons of pubic employee jobs to the same jobs in the private sector. In all seventeen ot the job titles, the pay received by public sector employees exceeds those in the private sector. Not shown are the generous benefits packages government employees enjoy in addition to their higher wages.
No longer do public employees face a trade-off in exchange for job security and generous benefits. At a time when businesses in Illinois are cutting back in the private sector, government employees are immune from cutbacks.
Governor Quinn's proposed 2011 budget is a train wreck in the making. Insignificant budget cuts, coupled with borrowing, would only add to the state's already unsustainable debt level, increasing taxes at a time when businesses and Illinois citizens can ill afford them as they adjust their budgets and payrolls accordingly.
Be sure to follow the weekly Illinois Policy Institute Spotlight of Spending series. Only than can you understand why Illinois is so out of control. Armed with that information, you can go out and make a difference.
The tool used to achieve accountability, www.illinoisOpenGov.org, evolved from a modest beginning into what now has become a weekly Illinois Policy Institute Spotlight on Sending series. Its stated goal: "Highlighting wasteful or inefficient programs and spending with the goal of bringing more responsible spending and accountable government to Illinois." http://www.illinoispolicy.org/newes/article.asp?ArticleSource=2634
Mind the Gap: The disparity between public sector and statewide salaries, published June 2, 2010, is the Institute's first report in its new weekly Spotlight on Spending study series. Providing source material for the Institute's policy series will be www.IllinoisOpenGov.org, where additional information can be found about state spending, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (obtained through the Freedom of Information Act).
The Institute's disparity report shows Average Statewide and State Government Salary Comparisons. There are seventeen job title comparisons of pubic employee jobs to the same jobs in the private sector. In all seventeen ot the job titles, the pay received by public sector employees exceeds those in the private sector. Not shown are the generous benefits packages government employees enjoy in addition to their higher wages.
No longer do public employees face a trade-off in exchange for job security and generous benefits. At a time when businesses in Illinois are cutting back in the private sector, government employees are immune from cutbacks.
Governor Quinn's proposed 2011 budget is a train wreck in the making. Insignificant budget cuts, coupled with borrowing, would only add to the state's already unsustainable debt level, increasing taxes at a time when businesses and Illinois citizens can ill afford them as they adjust their budgets and payrolls accordingly.
Be sure to follow the weekly Illinois Policy Institute Spotlight of Spending series. Only than can you understand why Illinois is so out of control. Armed with that information, you can go out and make a difference.
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