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State employees in Yakima receive temporary layoff notices
By kimatv.com- Claudia Ramos
Published: 06/24/2015

YAKIMA, Wash.-- The clock is ticking for politicians in Olympia who have less than 10 days to reach an agreement on a state budget.

If they fail to reach such agreement by July first, a partial government shutdown will go into place. It's a situation already impacting thousands of local state employees like David Gutierrez who has worked for the Employment Security Department in Yakima for more than eight years.

"It's frustrating and stressful you know, I'm a human and I've got a family to support and feed, I got bills to pay, mortgages."

Today Gutierrez, along with 26,000 other state workers around the Washington received notices stating that they could face a temporary layoff if a budget agreement isn't reached by the deadline.

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