Section 08 — Sources
Every claim traces back to a public source.
Grouped by theme — labor market, digital equity, workforce system, future economy, and the technical references that shape the engine.
Labor market & unemployment
- Illinois Job Openings and Labor Turnover, December 2025U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · 2025Openings, hires, separations evidence for the navigation-gap narrative.
- Payroll Jobs Up, Unemployment Rate Ticks Up in MarchIllinois Department of Employment Security · 2026Statewide unemployment & payroll change for March 2026.
- Unemployment Rate Ticks Up Across All Metro Areas in MarchIllinois Department of Employment Security · 2026All 12 metro areas and 101 counties saw increases.
- Peoria MSA Labor Market InformationIDES · 2026Peoria, Bloomington, Springfield metro-level context.
Digital skills & digital equity
- Closing Illinois' Digital Skill DivideNational Skills Coalition · 2024Digital-skill requirement evidence (47% / 43% / 10%).
- Illinois State Digital Equity PlanDCEO · 2024Home internet, affordability, device access, language data.
- Illinois QuickFactsU.S. Census Bureau · 2024Language-at-home and demographic context.
Workforce system & WIOA evidence
Illinois future economy & credentials
Technical: retrieval & responsible AI
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP TasksLewis, P. et al. — NeurIPS · 2020Foundational RAG reference.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLMs: A SurveyGao, Y. et al. · 2023Broader RAG design landscape.
- AI Risk Management Framework 1.0NIST · 2023Responsible-AI framing; human oversight & transparency.
- Human-Centered AI: Reliable, Safe and TrustworthyShneiderman, B. · 2020Why staff review and community feedback are core to the engine.