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Pennsylvania

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3. the latest

Wed Dec 21, 2016, 07:05 PM

Dec 2016

The latest development in this layoff fiasco is that Wagner, the state senator who got the state senate to hold off voting on the bill that would have prevented the layoffs, went to Altoona and handed out cards with $150 cash to 100 laid off workers vowing to "get to the bottom" of the layoffs.

It's all true: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/20/wagner-money-furloughed-unemployment-employees/95661224/

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