Big government employers usually provide a degree of security that can be rare today as governments tend to react more slowly to economic downturns than private businesses. This is true today of cities like Bloomington, Champaign-Urbana and Springfield, where UIS and other state departments and agencies are located.
The topic was the focus of an April 9, 2009, article in the U of I's Daily Illini student newspaper.
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