With unemployment still stubbornly high despite last year's $800 billion fiscal stimulus, a top House Democrat and Bay Area lawmaker on Wednesday proposed sending cities $100 billion over the next two years to forestall predicted layoffs of hundreds of thousands of city workers, teachers and other local public employees.California Democrats want taxpayers from all over the country to pay for an expensive San Francisco workforce.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
$100 billion proposal to save city worker jobs
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: