This one comes from the City Council's top policy analyst, who says that 1,000 jobs would have to be cut on top of the 761 targeted by the mayor. Something to do with projections on the amount of parking revenue that can be generated (LAT). The number of proposed job cuts has been bouncing all over the place, but there's been little or no attention paid to the fundamental problems behind all the red ink.
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