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Legislatures around state consider freezing public salaries

Public workers from the federal government to New York’s smallest school districts and towns facing hard times are considering a proposition that was once nearly unthinkable politically: Freezing public salaries.

A month after President Barack Obama proposed a two-year standstill on the pay of 2 million federal employees, New York’s Conference of Mayors last week suggested the state to freeze...

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