States Resort to Furloughs Even as Need for Services Grows - NYTimes.com

 

at least 15 states from every region — like Alabama and Georgia in the South; Arizona, California and Washington in the West; and Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York in the Northeast — are in various stages of considering or carrying out furloughs

The longest state furloughs so far appear to be 24 days in Alabama, the same number that had been proposed in Minnesota.

Social Security Administration, a program paid for by the federal government but administered by state workers. Officials said this month that in seven states, 2,700 of those workers had been furloughed, further delaying the processing of tens of thousands of disability claims, which already take an average of 488 days to resolve.

furloughs are fundamentally a cut in pay. And furloughs are a cut in service. If you don’t have people working, the work isn’t going to magically get done

So the savings aren’t as great. And you’re not solving any long-term problem

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