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Preckwinkle offers Cook County budget with no new taxes, but warns of health-care staffing ‘crisis’

Por: Chicago Sun Times Politics October 06, 2022

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Less than five weeks before the November general election, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has good news for taxpayers and voters alike: There are no new taxes or tax hikes in her proposed $8.75 billion budget for 2023. thanks to roughly $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money the county has to spend over multiple years. But she needs workers to pull those plans off, and faces more than 4,000 vacancies. She also wants to hire... + full article



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