Miami budget cuts a 'wake up call'

Courtesy Marketplace  Fri, 07/17/2009 - 11:19

States with double digit unemployment numbers are finding that cuts to local government are inevitable. Miami-Dade county has reached 10.6%, and every county employee is getting at least a pay cut, if not worse.

Dan Grech reports.


 

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