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For SC's 35,000 state workers, Legislature promises only pain
The 2017 legislative session, which starts Tuesday, could be one of the worst for S.C. state workers since the end of the Great Recession.
S.C. state employees – from law enforcement officers to social workers to mental health workers – are unlikely to get a pay raise. At the same time, their paychecks will shrink because they will have to pay more toward their retirement costs.
That’s bad news for Richland and Lexington counties, where state government is centered and more than 23,000 state workers live.
It’s also bad news for other S.C. residents.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article125233989.html