U.S. cuts become real with furlough notices sent to thousands

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U.S. cuts become real with furlough notices sent to thousands

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-cuts-become-real-furlough-notices-sent-thousands-212614869--business.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rZCRXRFiCDCZdlMWHxMK.Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-01T212614Z_1_CBRE9201NLE00_RTROPTP_2_USA-DEBT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington" align="left" title="The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nation's largest employer, the U.S. government, has begun notifying its vast and varied workforce to prepare for reduced hours and slashed paychecks over the next seven months as big budget cuts that were once an abstraction became a reality Friday. Some 115,000 employees of the Department of Justice -including prosecutors across the country - were among the first to get the official word in notices that actually started going out last week but were made public Friday, hours before the $85 billion in cuts were set to take effect. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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