Analysis: An expense to Texas taxpayers that carries no explanation
Tue, 2016-05-31 21:51
News Staff
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Should taxpayers pay severance to state employees to take the sting out of unexpected job losses or to protect the uncovered tails of the elected officeholders who fire them?
The state’s legislative budget writers have promised to dig into stories of severance packages for people getting pushed out of some state agencies. Their understanding was that the practice was out of bounds.