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Massachusetts Budget Plan Would Force Cuts in State Jobs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 14--Massachusetts would cut hundreds of state jobs, through both layoffs and attrition, and tap $600 million from its dwindling reserves under the fiscal 2005 budget that House Democratic leaders will unveil today.
Governor Mitt Romney, who proposed his own budget blueprint in January, has often sparred with state workers, and the Democrat-controlled Legislature has generally defended them. But Representative John H.
Rogers, the Norwood Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday the still-sluggish economy will force the state to cut some jobs.
"We cut a lot of bureaucracy, so there will be layoffs, which is...
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