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Los Angeles city workers drive budget gap
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As Los Angeles grapples with its largest budget deficit in
history, lucrative compensation packages for thousands of city
workers are driving much of the gap, and there's little end in
sight.
In the past year alone, gross annual payroll costs have soared
$120million for nearly 48,000 city employees - $90million of that
going to 35,000 civilian and sworn workers - and bumped the total
payroll up to $3.2billion, or nearly half Los Angeles' $7billion
budget.
While city leaders see...
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