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State workers deserve bigger paychecks

TO THE EDITOR:

The last I knew, five additional vacation days didn’t feed a state employee or his/her family. I guess our state legislators want to run this state with volunteers.

Thankfully, I don’t consider myself in poverty —something I am sure can’t be said for some of my fellow state employees.

So, for their sakes, I can only hope we vote out of office the legislators who decided that state employees don’t need or deserve a raise or that retirees (who worked many years for North Carolina) don’t deserve a cost-of-living increase in their pensions.

James Carpenter
Chapel Hill

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