25,000 out of 70,000 Illinois State Employees are on Workers

......................"Apparently federal investigators have questions, too, as they've launched a criminal probe following reports by the Belleville News-Democrat of alleged abuses of the system at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, where more than half the staff - 389 people, most of them prison guards and including the warden - have been paid some $10 million for on-the-job injuries such as those occasioned by locking and unlocking cell doors. (Yes, you read that correctly.)

Meanwhile, a quarter of the 32 arbitrators who decide injury claims for others have filed claims themselves, reported the paper."



http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... state.html

After 13 pages of Google hits, I can't find anything but conservative blogs as the source for this story... Do you have a REAL source, other than the usual conservative outrage-of-the-day sources?

So the real question is whether there is a problem with the conservative blogs or whether there is a problem with "the real" sources............

Since there are apparently no sources other than the conservative blogs, I guess it's a moot point...

Nothing to see here...Move along....

LadyJazzer wrote: Since there are apparently no sources other than the conservative blogs, I guess it's a moot point...

Nothing to see here...Move along....

Chicago Sun-times?
http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/460 ... laims.html

Insurance news net, from McClatchy-Tribune Information Services ?
http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=254463

Good links... Thank you... I couldn't find anything to back it up... (Not that I doubted that there is WC fraud in EVERY state...But those are some pretty scary numbers, and I just wanted to see where they came from...)

Thanks....

And THIS is why the "real" news can mislead people by bias or non-reporting. That trust is truly unfounded. Can you hear the surprise in *MY* voice. lol

Can't take "Thank you" as an answer, huh?

I think it was probably in the more mainstream press, but it was around the beginning of April... Looks like the right wing just picked up on it later.

Non sequitur. Your response of "Thank you" is unrelated to noting how news can be processed.