State Controller John Chiang is trying to fend off an order from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut pay for 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage until a budget is passed. While they battle it out in court, people who've already endured a 15 percent pay cut wonder how they'd survive on $7.25 an hour.
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