The Personnel Craze Sweeping the Nation: Furlough-a-Go-Go!

It’s not just California and Hawaii that have turned to employee furloughs as a means of reducing budget deficits – 22 other states are using them as a means to reduce payroll costs.

Geographically, the states span the nation, from Maine to Oregon and Wisconsin to New Mexico.

A recent article in The Pew Center on the States’ ongoing “Focus on Performance” series, a collaborative project with Stateline.org,    Read more »

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Sound Eerily Familiar? Think ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’

“There has never been a just one, never an honorable one – on the part of the instigator of a war. I can see a million years ahead and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances.

The loud little handful – as usual – will shout for the war.    Read more »

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