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(Chicago, IL) -- Carol Marin

By Ryan Dean

KSDK -- One organization paying close attention to the happenings in Springfield, Illinois is TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities). The not-for-profit helps drug and alcohol addicts get into treatment.

Leaders of the organization say they are going to lose 76 percent of their funding if nothing changes in Springfield.

Beginning July 1, workers will be forced to take two weeks off without pay. The organization is mandated by the state to evaluate substance abuse addicts and dete

(Chicago) -- From Fox-TV/Ch 32, Social service providers contend that Illinois residents will face dire consequences if lawmakers don't pass a new budget.

The providers says foster children could be returned to the state, addicts won't get treatment, senior citizens could go uncared for and domestic violence victims will have nowhere to turn.

(Springfield, IL) --

(Springfield, IL) -- Governor Pat Quinn has begun his "Human Misery Tour" around the state highlighting the human carnage that will ensue if the Illinois General Assembly fails to find new money to plug a $7 billion budget whole out of a $21 billion budget.

Now before Your Two Cents readers are seized by the impulse to yell "cut the fat" from the state budget, consider these facts:

1. Illinois has shed nearly 13,000 state employees through early retirement since 2003 to around 59,000 today from 72,000.

2