Tuesday, August 23, 2011

State government has gotten 7% smaller

For the first time anyone can recall, state government employment has shrunk for two years in a row, shedding nearly 4,700 full-time jobs since 2009, more than 7 percent of the workforce.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times

OLYMPIA — Gerry Ketchum says he can walk you through Department of Social and Health Services offices that look like a ghost town because of jobs cuts.

In some cases, after passing through a busy front lobby, "you walk back and I'm like, 'Where are all the people? What happened to all the people who used to be here?' " said Ketchum, who works at a state DSHS office in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.

For the first time anyone can recall, state government employment has shrunk for two years in a row due to budget cuts, shedding nearly 4,700 full-time jobs since 2009. That's more than 7 percent of the workforce. FULL STORY

I left a nice comment there-

An ideal situation would be for ALL of the CPS agents to not only lose their employment, but for them to be facing charges for their FEDERAL CRIMES against families, several of which are capital offenses.

http://familyrights.us/bin/CPS_violates_these_every_case.htm

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©

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