Public sector shedding 35k jobs a month — Republicans block bill to prevent further losses

Written on 25 Oct, 2011 at 8:03

State budgets have to be suffering from reduced income and sales taxes, don't they? Higher unemployment obviously means fewer people working and those that are still working... are making less money, so it stands to reason that income tax... (Continue reading)

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Public sector shedding 35k jobs a month — Republicans block bill to prevent further losses