Recent news stories regarding the state budget impasse have understandably focused on so-called "payless paydays" for state employees. Yet there is another side of this story that has not been told.

It is certainly outrageous that state employees who are coming to work and doing their jobs on behalf of all Pennsylvanians are not getting paid in a timely manner because of the budget stalemate in Harrisburg. After all, they have the same mortgages to pay and mouths to feed as everyone else.

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