June 25, 2010
CDCR Captain says the furloughs “really aren’t a bad thing”
Mary Jane Esponda, a 58-year-old business service assistant for the state Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, said the furloughs — three mandatory unpaid days off a month — cost her the house she owned for nine years.
The furloughs “changed everything,” she said.
“I didn’t make enough money,” she said. “I couldn’t keep my house.”
Last July, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, looking to cut costs, ordered furlough days for about 200,000 state employees...
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