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A handful of reporters gathered on the seventh floor of City Hall this morning to hear how Mayor Greg Nickels plans to balance the budget now that forecasters are predicting that the city's revenue will drop another $29 million this year.
But the process this morning was a little backwards. The way it worked was that first Nickels held a press conference, then afterwards, reporters were told what the mayor plans to cut from the budget. |
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment figures for February. It's not good news.
Last month, employers handed out 651,000 pink slips, taking the national unemployment rate from 7.6 to 8.1 percent. Washington state's unemployment rate was 7.8 in January - the data for February is not yet available. |
The University of Washington announced today that it will cut 34 full-time fundraisers from its Advancement office and reduce 16 full-time employees to part-time.
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