"Budget Nixes Pay Raises" - for the 9th year in a row. (I'd link, but you have to be a paid subscriber to read it...).
For the 9th straight year, OK State employees are not getting a pay raise, not even a COLA. Wages have stagnated here not because the economy is bad (it isn't) but because the Republicans have convinced the legislators that state employees are lazy grifters looking for a welfare hand out.
Never mind how hard the state employees work to make the state function to just well, but amazingly well.
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