The study – which says that government workers have been "vilified" in California – concludes that public employees are not overpaid when you make an "apples-to-apples" comparison of employees’ education, experience and other factors that might influence pay… Allegretto defended public workers, saying that there are 60,000 fewer government workers at the state and local level today than before the economic downturn began. And she noted that despite the attention being paid by the governor and other politicians this year to rising public pension costs, those costs make up a small fraction of state spending.

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by Marisa Lagos, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: October 19th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.