Gov. Beverly Perdue on Thursday called for a hiring freeze and sweeping changes in state government to close a budget gap estimated at $3.7 billion. Her proposal calls for consolidating 14 high-level government agencies into eight. Perdue didn’t provide estimates of how many jobs would be cut or how much the state would save through the changes. She says the plan would cut a number of back-office functions and privatize others. She pledged to have a more detailed proposal for the General…
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