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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Sounds scary, but the reality is that it won't be doctors, nurses, and cops who get fired.
It's probably going to mostly be the administrators and paper pushers. Lack of resources is painful, but it forces systems to be more efficient.
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It'll depend. The Sun Times had been reporting that nearly 400 of them are going to be correctional officers who are apart of a union that opposed the tax and got on Preckwinkle's bad side. Kim Foxx also announced that the State's Attorney's Office could be laying off up to 100 Assistant State's Attorneys. This comes only a month or so after she had previously stated that her office didn't have the manpower to prosecute various crimes in Cook County. The Public Defender's Office is also facing cuts.
Preckwinkle could be broadcasting doom and gloom in the hope of the public siding with the tax, but she and the rest of the board are playing a dangerous game at the moment.