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Schwarzenegger budget plan will include furlough, layoff options – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

19 hours ago ago from The Red Monkey

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to save $1.6 billion in state employee costs by maintaining monthly furloughs past next June, instituting layoffs or shifting general fund workers into positions financed by other revenues, according to sources familiar with the governor's forthcoming budget proposal. California faces a $20.7 billion general fund budget deficit through June 2011, according to an estimate by the nonpartisan Legislative ...

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Many States Running Out Of Unemployment Funds

9 hours ago ago from InvestorCentric

25 states have already run out of money for unemployment benefits and many more states are expected to follow in the next couple of years. With a growing number of Americans staying unemployed for more than 26 weeks, the costs to the government will continue to rise. See the following article from Expected Returns . The ongoing recession has resulted in elevated levels of unemployment, and a dramatic increase in the extension of ...

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Don't Look for Changes in State Worker Pay or Benefits

21 hours ago ago from WashACE Blog

As Kim Bradford writes on The News Tribune s editorial page blog, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown is fed up with criticisms of the compensation package for state workers. On her blog, Brown writes [State employees] deserve our thanks, not our ire. Bradford concludes, Sounds a lot like state worker pay won t be part of any budget solutioncoming out of Olympia next year, at least not if Brown has her way. Brown s post was ...

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UVA: Go Native

20 hours ago ago from Short-Sighted Discourse

The University of Virginia is likely the most privately-funded public university in the United States. The last few issues of UVA's Alumni magazine, Virginia , have begun with letters from President Casteen relating the fact that only 6.9% of the University's budget was provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia (also noted as the state in this piece). This is the lowest in history as Virginia's funding from the state has been on a downward ...

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Effects Of Furloughs In California

12 hours ago ago from Social Security News

From a report of the California State Senate Rules Committee : Disability Programs. We found that by taking workers off the job as many as three days a month, furloughs have delayed tens of millions of dollars in monthly checks for people with long-term disabilities. Among our specific findings about the federal Social Security Administration disability programs: • Federal disability benefits of $68 million to $99 million a year will be ...

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