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Cities across the state just entered their fifth consecutive fiscal year of tight budgets, layoffs and service rollbacks, with no end clearly in sight.
Already since the recession began, California’s 20 largest cities have reduced their full-time workforce by 10,000, or roughly 8 percent, according to a Bee review of the cities’ comprehensive annual financial reports.
The deepest staffing cuts came in Chula Vista, a city of 245,000 near San Diego that reduced its workforce, including part-timers, by more than one third. San Jose cut its workforce by 17 percent.

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