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Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers, reform salaries

September 14, 2010

By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-14T04:13:33Z HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state workers by early next year and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs - the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's push to radically remake employment on the communist-run island....

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