‘Everything is on the table,’ Cook County board President Toni Preckwinkle warns as 2021 budget gap forecasted to be largest in a decade – Chicago Tribune

The Cook County Health and Hospitals system already has laid off more than 70 nonunion administrative and manager employees to save $5 million this year and is working to eliminate or renegotiate its contracts with outside agencies to recover another $30 million. More Cook County employees could stand to see furloughs and layoffs as well.
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Wolfnight
3 years ago

About time the government and its employees faced the reality of the situation. Rumbling the taxpayer for more is not gonna work Madam President. No bail out from DC. My business was shut down by Government. I have barely survived, taking on a job at a hardware store to make some money, where at least I am deemed an ‘essential worker’. How can it be that issuing the annual car sticker notice to my home in May is considered essential? Why have government employees not been furloughed or suffered? Most received full pay AND a stimulus check, whilst on a… Read more »

debtsor
3 years ago

Keep laying off! The world needs more dog groomers.

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