NYC to lay off 23,000

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to tell New Yorkers on Friday that the budget for the next year will be excruciatingly painful.

Jobs will be axed, programs slashed and lots of things will cost more.

Wall Street and the spiraling out of control economy have dealt New York City a bad hand. The mayor has no trumps to play as he lays out a spending plan whose gap has grown nearly 400 percent in three months.

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There will be a reduction of 23,000 jobs through layoffs and attrition. That's more than 7 percent of the city's employees.

http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/nyc.b...r.2.921808.html

[Jasman0717 9]

New York just got 3 bil, don't do layoffs

[William33 110]

Geez, nothing will get done now.....

Fat needs to be trimmed, now is the time.

[dalegg 143]

"There'll be fewer police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers and teachers in the bare-bones, doomsday budget to be announced at noon on Friday."

There goes that lower crime rate.

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Mostly teachers

Of the 20,000 jobs now at risk, 15,000 belong to teachers and school employees, according to administration officials.

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Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said most of the 15,000 school workers at risk are "educators," not bureaucrats.

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Roughly 5,000 jobs at other agencies still would be in jeopardy.

[AlHayatZween 2]

Mostly teachers

Of the 20,000 jobs now at risk, 15,000 belong to teachers and school employees, according to administration officials.

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Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said most of the 15,000 school workers at risk are "educators," not bureaucrats.

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Roughly 5,000 jobs at other agencies still would be in jeopardy.

ain't that somethin'... prolly the teachers w/o tenure will be the first to get axed... and after all that funding was put into new teacher recruitment plans.

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't know what you do in these situations. On the one hand, I think it's terrible that states run these huge budget deficits, running a state on a loan system seems incredibly wasteful. On the other, downsizing services that are necessary and will have to be jacked up again at some point, probably in the near future is equally wasteful.

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I don't know what you do in these situations. On the one hand, I think it's terrible that states run these huge budget deficits, running a state on a loan system seems incredibly wasteful. On the other, downsizing services that are necessary and will have to be jacked up again at some point, probably in the near future is equally wasteful.

Who said teaching is necessary? Most kids don't learn ####### anyway.

[Peikko 1,575]

Down A.J, down!

Are you ever going to have any kids? Not that it matters, but just being nosy

[AlHayatZween 2]

naawww... i think they do...

from what i've read, there's no stopping it, NYC is just going to get pinched on all sides.

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Are you ever going to have any kids? Not that it matters, but just being nosy

I don't know.

[Peikko 1,575]

Fair enough, but if you do, I guess your wife is going to be home schooling, or are they just going straight out to those cotton fields?

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Fair enough, but if you do, I guess your wife is going to be home schooling, or are they just going straight out to those cotton fields?

Send 'em to India, my uncle runs a carpet factory, he could use the help.

[Peikko 1,575]

, I see.

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No, I don't think you do.