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| | Herald & Review Newspaper Website - Decatur, Illinois - Central Illinois Newspaper Group (CING) |
 | | All taxpayer-funded public works projects, either by state, "county, city, town, village, township, school district, municipal governments, irrigation, utility, reclamation improvement, or other district and every other political subdivision," are mandated to pay "prevailing wages" as determined by the Illinois Department of Labor under the Prevailing Wage Act. |
 | | In a phone conversation in January, the chief of department of labor confirmed that private sector rates of pay are not used to figure these prevailing wages. |
 | | And thus, our county - and state and federal - costs continue to rise rapidly and jobs continue to be trimmed to try and balance budgets. |
| www.herald-review.com /articles/2005/02/21/news/editorials/1006054.txt (649 words) |
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