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State Employee Contracts and Budget Uncertainty
At the same time COVID is bringing the state economy to its knees, state employee contracts are up for ratification requiring an uncomfortable vote. The numbers are getting all the attention, but from a policy standpoint it’s the distribution of those increases that deserves more consideration.
The state has plenty of immediate fiscal problems to deal with in responding to COVID. But like the virus itself, a “second wave” of impact looms in the state’s future.