Here are the results from my highly unscientific, not-at-all professional poll on options for budget cuts for a city or school district.
Reduction in benefits came as the leading answer — far above employee layoffs, tax increases, salary reductions, or reductions in services.
There’s more than one way to address a shortfall, and when city or public school district officials insist that employee layoffs had to happen because of a reduction in state aid — well, it’s just not true.