Cash-strapped China county hired an army of temporary civil servants, but their paltry salaries of US$2,300 a year are snowballing local debt
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A rapid expansion of part-time workers is weighing heavily on a Chinese county’s already-strained fiscal budget at a time when local-level debt has become an outsized concern across the country.