With the deadline ticking down to his state's own version of a fiscal cliff, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has said he still feels optimistic pension reform can take place in a timely fashion.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Quinn told reporters Thursday that he feels state leaders can get their act together and manage to come up with a solution to the state's embattled public pension program – which boasts the worst funded status in the continental United States, a $96 billion deficit.
But Quinn, who set an arbitrary Jan. 9 deadline for a long-anticipated and much-delayed set of revisions to the state's pension system, is hampered by the fact that state lawmakers don't seem to be able to even come to consensus on when they'll be back at work.
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