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Top GOP Official Criticizes Quinn Temporary Jobs Plan
(IRN) -- While the governor boasts about the number of people winning temporary jobs in Illinois, a top Republican says the money for the program is being used wrongly.

Senate Minority Leader Christine Rodogno (R-Lemont) is talking about the Put Illinois to Work program, saying Gov. Pat Quinn probably doesn't have the authority to extend the program with tobacco bond money, isn't revealing if participants are promoted to permanent jobs, and should be using the money to pay bills which could keep other people in permanent jobs.

More than 26,000 people have gotten jobs through the program, which subsidizes $10-an-hour jobs for up to six months, with the hope that the worker will then be placed on the company's regular payroll.

Rodogno says tobacco bond money is supposed to help chip away the multi-billion dollar backlog of bills. She says it's ironic that providers of goods and services to the state have likely been laying off workers and trimming hours because the state is so far behind in payment, and now some of that money is being used to subsidize temporary jobs.

(Illinois Radio Network)
12 04 10 by Newsroom
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