Pennsylvania layoff fight looks like prelude to 2018 governor's race
In the state Capitol, nothing moves legislation as quickly as a deadline, and nothing screams failure as loudly as a missed deadline.
The Dec. 19 layoff 521 of state workers, including 88 in Allentown, personifies those deadline truths.
And the impacted workers can expect to relive their indignity over and over as their plight becomes fodder for the finger-pointing already starting ahead of the 2018 gubernatorial campaign.
The layoffs came after the Republican-controlled Senate failed to vote on a Republican House bill providing some, but not all, of the money Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf had requested. Their jobs, ironically, are handling citizens' unemployment claims.
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