State May Lay Off 8,900

early and awful Mar. 24, 2009

State May Lay Off 8,900

By Jessica Pressler, a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

More bad news from Albany: In the face of a $16 billion deficit, Governor David Paterson has ordered layoffs of more than 4 percent of state government workers, or 8,900 people. [AP via NYT]

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