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Cuba To Cut Half A Million Government Workers

by Nick Miroff, NPR
September 14, 2010

In an effort to pare state payrolls, Cuba has announced it will layoff 500,000 workers over the next year. Cuban leader Raul Castro last month warned layoffs would be coming and said Cuba would expand private enterprise.

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