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The Illinois House voted to use $2.7 billion in federal relief to partially refill the state’s depleted unemployment trust fund. Some lawmakers said it’s not enough.
The House on Wednesday advanced a measure to allocate $2.7 billion in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay down more than half of its outstanding $4.5 billion Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund debt.
Democratic lawmakers this week voted to dedicate $2.7 billion toward filling a $4.5 billion pandemic-driven hole in the fund that pays the unemployment claims of laid off Illinoisans. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the bill Friday. The reaction was unsurprisingly partisan.
Illinois lawmakers this week advanced a measure to allocate $2.7 billion in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay down more than half of the state’s outstanding $4.5 billion
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is putting our fiscal house in order and paying off our debt. I applaud House Democrats for prioritizing legislation that will us