More Pain in Quinn’s Budget

Published February 19, 2011

More pain in Quinn’s budget
SPRINGFIELD — Despite January’s income-tax hike, the $ 52.7 billion budget Gov. Quinn proposed Wednesday relies on near-historic amounts of borrowing and cuts programs that pay for prescriptions for the elderly, health care for the poor and bus service for Illinois schoolchildren.Quinn billed his 2012 spending plan as a pathway to “financial stability” and “economic prosperity,” but critics from …
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