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General News    H4'ed 7/8/12

Scranton, PA Defies Court Order; Reduces Police Officers, Firefighters' Pay To Minimum Wage

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Many of those workers are police officers, firefighters, and other public safety workers, industries that have been slammed by contractions in state and local budgets since the Great Recession. Congressional Republicans repeatedly blocked efforts to extend aid to the states that would have helped shore up their budgets and keep these workers on payroll. In the case of Scranton, such aid may have helped the city actually pay its workers a living wage instead of a federal minimum that hasn't been raised since 2006 and has less buying power than it had in 1968.
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