Sarah Krouse
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133 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard Aug 2020
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And now the reason we wrote this story now is we're sort of getting to this tipping point where a growing number of municipalities are starting to get to a point where they're going to run out of money.
And so one of the places we went in the story was to Central Falls, Rhode Island, which is a city –
North of Providence that in 2011 filed for bankruptcy.
And as part of getting out of that bankruptcy, firefighters and police there, retired firefighters and police agreed to cut their pensions by as much as 55 percent for fear of losing even more.
Yes.
And so that was a settlement that they agreed to, in part because they were afraid that if they went into the negotiations and sort of continued to the end, they could end up losing even more than
Right.
They're gone.
And so the state, I should say, the state did kick in some money to help blunt the impact of the cuts, but these are permanent reductions to their income.
And so one of the things we looked at in the story was the way in which these firefighters and policemen's lives had changed since the cuts took place.
And so
For some of them, it was simple things like not being able to afford a date night out once a week.
For others, they lost their homes.
They had to give up automobiles.
They had to borrow money from family and friends.
They or their spouse took additional jobs.
So it's one of the things we tried to do in the story was just look to the actual people that had been impacted by those cuts and show that
You know, the ways in which their lives have been changed by the loss of this income, because that is a reality that's facing other similar public servants, teachers, firemen, police, just state and city workers.
Several of the folks that we talked to had taken additional jobs or had to go back to work.
Existing firefighters and police officers in this town in particular, and this is certainly the case in other places where benefits are being restructured, are having to agree to work longer and potentially receive less of the income that they thought that they would be given when they started their careers.
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