Insolvent States

The State Budget Crisis Commission issued a new report on Illinois in which it chronicles the long descent of the state into fiscal chaos. Illinois has used so many gimmicks to push off its problems over the years that even before the financial crisis hit, the state was essentially insolvent. How many other states are in the same predicament?

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