Kankakee Public Library Podcasts

Economist Ralph Martire is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (“CTBA”). He also serves as a regular columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, the State Journal-Register and The Herald News on issues involving government accountability, tax, fiscal and budget policies. In this program, discusses his recent study which examined the growing debt of the state's pension systems and why he says the state needs to restructure its taxing system to meet the growth in the cost of state government. This program was sponsored by the Kankakee Chamber of Commerce. You may follow the PowerPoint slides for this program by downloading the Acrobat Reader file below.