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| Massive layoffs and pay cuts are likely coming to state and local governments as federal aid goes elsewhere |
| 2020-04-23 |
| h/t Instapundit [CNBC] - State and local governments are warning of a wave of layoffs and pay cuts after getting left out of the federal coronavirus relief package expected to pass Congress this week. In many places, those painful reductions are already taking shape: Los Angeles plans to force city workers to spend 26 days on unpaid leave as revenues are forecast to drop as much as $600 million next fiscal year. Detroit has proposed laying off 200 workers and furloughing thousands more. In Ohio’s Hamilton County, Commissioner Denise Driehaus is taking a 10% pay cut alongside county workers. Every cloud ... |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #13 /\ Call and no one answers. Try contacting someone in the USPS about an undelivered or potentially lost package, I dare ya. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-23 12:14 |
| #12 New wrinkle but expected. In Maryland you apply for unemployment now you will not get card anytime soon. They have run out of cards. One fellow applied and was approved but has waited two weeks and no card received.Tuesday many did not receive payments. One fellow has gone a month without payment. This will get ugly quickly. Call and no one answers. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-04-23 12:11 |
| #11 Voters should be allowed to decide when the quarantine of state and local government folks can be ended and they can return to work. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-04-23 11:53 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-04-23 10:31 |
| #9 LOLOL! Raj! A national treasure! |
| Posted by: SR-71 2020-04-23 09:54 |
| #8 State hacks getting the boot and national media taking it in the ass too? For a schadenboner lasting more then four hours, do NOT call your doctor! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-23 09:00 |
| #7 revenues are forecast to drop Wait! I was told by those who occupied the highest office "You didn't build that." Now you're saying these people are dependent upon others? You think they'd get a clue and work to maximize that source of revenue? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-23 08:21 |
| #6 revenues are forecast to drop And exactly what do you produce to earn that "revenue"? Sounds like an unsuccessful bank robber. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-23 08:04 |
| #5 i wish i could get worked up over this but experience with all sorts of government workers has jaded any kind of empathy towards them. oh i'm sure many are hard-working and they will be the first to tell you that |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-04-23 07:46 |
| #4 We are about to hear of all the things you have to do "in person," because being able to do them online or via mail "just won't work." Of course, voting somehow won't be on the list. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-23 07:34 |
| #3 No more fat positive transgender social workers? Say it isn't so! |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-04-23 07:18 |
| #2 And mass layoffs of healthcare workers in Southeast Michigan. Go figure. The economic panic is spiraling out of control - at the same time that the curve has been flattened. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-23 05:38 |
| #1 Virus union busting. Silver G... |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-04-23 05:31 |