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Pentagon Issuing Lay Offs

By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: January 28, 2013
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The Pentagon has started laying off thousands of contract and temporary civilian workers.

It's an effort to reduce spending ahead of possible mandatory budget cuts in March

A spokesman says the agency is letting 46-thousand people go.

Full-time civilian employees... which number in the hundreds of thousands... will undergo a one day a week furlough for 22-weeks.

If Congress fails to reach a deal on deficit reduction, the military will be forced to reduce its budget by billions of dollars.

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