Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that the budget deficit has exploded to up to $6.5 billion - a historic gap he wants fixed by laying off up to 1,100 employees, furloughing non-emergency workers eight days a year, rescinding 2% pay raises and making new cuts in aid to schools and local governments. Doyle said the $5 billion deficit he and lawmakers faced in March has soared because tax collections are running far below estimates. The potential $6.5 billion gap will occur over a three-year period ending June 30, 2011...
Extreme cuts, layoffs, and furloughs are needed to fix the overexpanding budget hole. Declining revenues could add another 1.5 billion dollar gap to the current 5 billion dollar deficit and, as a result, Governor Jim Doyle says up to 11-hundred state employees could be laid off. Doyle also proposes 16 days of furloughs for all state workers over the next two years...
State workers will have to shoulder furloughs, up to 1,100 layoffs and a rollback of expected raises to fix an additional budget shortfall of $1.5 billion, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. But the Democratic governor said he wouldn’t propose more tax hikes...
Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that up to 1,100 state workers could be laid off to deal with an ever-growing state budget shortfall...
The president of the union representing Oshkosh area state employees says she doubts the union's almost 3,000 members will agree to remove a pay raise from their contract as Gov. Jim Doyle proposed Thursday in an effort to close a growing state budget gap. Doyle on Thursday said as many as 1,100 state employees would be laid off and all state workers would have to take 16 days of unpaid leave, under a plan to deal with a budget hole to that could grow to $6.5 billion. The governor also will propose eliminating a 2 percent raise scheduled to take effect in June for about 10,000 mostly administrative-level state workers and University of Wisconsin faculty and staff, said Doyle's budget director, Dave Schmiedicke...
Governor Doyle announced Thursday all of Wisconsin's nearly 60,000 state employees will receive furloughs of more than three weeks over the next two years to help the state cope with a balooning budget deficit. A spokesperson for Doyle said the unpaid days off would include employees of the University of Wisconsin...
Emergency medical services in Dane County are reducing requests for Med Flight, UW Hospital’s helicopter service, in the wake of a deadly crash a year ago...
