R.I. state workers likely to see furloughs; state reports 14 more coronavirus deaths

Providence Journal: With Rhode Island now facing an $800-million projected budget deficit, “it’s hard to see how we get out of this without doing furloughs” of state workers, Gov. Gina Raimondo said Tuesday.

As Rhode Island and others states across the nation begin grappling with the financial devastation wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic, Raimondo said state workers, whom she’d been trying to protect from joining the rolls of more than 210,000 others who have filed unemployment claims here, will likely face unpaid leaves from their jobs.

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