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Rauner Cabinet Member Pay Under Question

A highly paid cabinet member for Governor Bruce Rauner is being paid from an agency facing millions in cuts to services that have little to do with her job.
Education Secretary Beth Purvis is making $250,000 a year but her salary is coming from the budget of the Department of Human Services. DHS was targeted for millions in cuts to programs that support autism and epilepsy support and burials for the indigent.

Those cuts were eventually restored for the rest of the fiscal year but the upcoming budget is seeking more cuts at DHS.

The salary switch was discovered by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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