Thursday, May 27, 2010

Bankruptcy talk spreads among Calif. muni officials | Reuters

Bankruptcy talk spreads among Calif. muni officials | ReutersStreet expects more talk of municipal bankruptcy across California because local government finances are in such dire shape -- a situation underscored on Wednesday when a top finance officer for Sacramento County projected a worse-than-expected shortfall for the county of $181 million, which could force more than 1,000 layoffs from the county's payroll.
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That's peanuts. Illinois is in the hole to the tune of $80 billion just to the state employee pension funds.

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