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"Citizen Action's independent survey reinforces the agenda I laid
out in my budget address. The people of Illinois rank access to
affordable health care and more funding for schools as their top
priorities. These two issues very directly impact working and
middle-class families as they strive to get ahead. As elected
decision-makers, we have an obligation to do everything we can to
address the concerns our constituents raise. That means finding the
resources to better fund education and to help people get adequate
health coverage at prices they can actually afford.
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 "I hope lawmakers will take these survey findings to heart and
work with me to meet the needs of the people of Illinois. We can all
agree on the goals, but coming up with the resources is more
difficult. New revenue has to come from somewhere, and I've proposed
a plan that asks those who are doing the least right now in support
of state services to do their part. I know legislators are hearing
from the business community and contributors who don't want to pay
any more than they already do -- I'm hearing from them too. But
Citizen Action's survey shows that people all over Illinois are
worried about our schools and being able to get health care -- we
can't ask those same people to dig deeper into their pockets. I hope
lawmakers will join me in putting the interests of regular people
ahead of special interests."
[Text from file received from
the
Illinois Office of
Communication and Information]
(Report on
Citizen Action survey) [To download Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF
file, click here.]
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