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Quinn Cuts Staff Salaries After Flap Over Raises
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn is reducing the salaries of his staff through unpaid days off, just weeks after it was revealed he's been giving raises as high as 20 percent.

Quinn said Friday he's requiring his staff and other managers to take 24 unpaid days off this year.

He says the days off will translate into a 9.2 percent salary cut and will save the state about $18 million in fiscal year 2011.

The Democratic governor came under fire after an Associated Press analysis revealed earlier this month that he's given 43 salary increases averaging 11.4 percent to 35 staffers in the past 15 months.

The increases came as the state struggles with a fiscal crisis and is awash in debt.

Quinn is also urging members of the General Assembly and their staffs to take 24 unpaid days off.

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