New York’s Long Beach Faces Crisis After Overtime ‘Bad Luck’

4 February 2012, 3:41 pm

Long Beach, New York, the Long Island city whose credit rating was cut five levels in December, is freezing hiring and cutting costs after a 66 percent increase in overtime and a $500,000 payout to a retiring police commissioner forced officials to tap the bond market for cash.... Read More »

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