So, back in April, Governor Purdue announced that all state employees - including public school teachers - would have to take unpaid 10-hour furloughs, which would save the state some $65 million. Okay, sure, we all know times are tight and the state's hurting for money, right?
But apparently somebody's budget somewhere has money to burn, because Mary Easley still has a job. N.C. State pays her $170,000 a year to "run a speakers series and a public-safety center." That's the same N.C. State that laid off my sister's roommate from her frakking work-study position because of budget cuts... but there's money to pay the ex-governor's wife to do whatever it is that she does?
"That's not okay," said my sister, who graduated from State not quite two weeks ago. "[Easley] should know better than that. Of all people, she should be the one to make a sacrifice in this economy."
Yup.
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