Now their salaries have been slashed, because of contracting out.
Tony Kemp, who runs a taxi firm in Pickering, said his profits have been "slashed" because of the rising costs.
Stefani said she would like to try for another baby next summer, but the couple's paychecks have been slashed because of mandatory furloughs.
About 70 of Dewey's 300 partners have left since January after their salaries were slashed because of the firm's weak financial performance.
Even as the state budget is being slashed because of slumping tax revenues, many politicians say they have no choice but to pay.
The hours were slashed because of budget cuts (and hours are under the gun again, in Mayor Bloomberg's new budget).
Raj Chada, of solicitors Hodge, Jones Allen, which represented the protesters, said: "As well as the millions spent on the eviction itself, Basildon council sought to spend even more on a vindictive prosecution of a group of people who happened to disagree with them – and this at a time when local services are being slashed because of budget cuts.
"As well as the millions spent on the eviction itself," he said, "Basildon Council sought to spend even more on a vindictive prosecution of a group of people who happened to disagree with them - and this at a time when local services are being slashed because of budget cuts.
Today, this number has been slashed to just a quarter of that, largely because of standardization in the Android handset industry.
Because social programs would have been slashed by the deal the misery of this increasing unemployment would have been compounded.
