BUDGET CRUNCH: Revenue is down, deficit is up, and R.I. still lacks plan to deal with it

Mary MacDonald

10/30/2020

CHANGING WORKPLACE: Joe Morais, project leader at the Pawtucket Department of Public Works, is one of hundreds of city workers who will be filing for unemployment one day a week because Pawtucket is shutting down services on Fridays to save money. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien never thought he’d have to close down his city on Fridays to save money, but in the absence of a state budget and the rise in financial uncertainty, it has come to that. Starting the week of Oct. 19, several hundred public employees started working four days a week, with

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