Cities and counties continue cutting jobs.

• Position: News & Numbers - Brief article - Conference notes

A report by the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors projects local government job losses in the current and the next fiscal years to approach 500,000, with public safety;, public works, public health, social services, and parks and recreation hardest hit by the cutbacks.

The service areas being cut are: courts (25 percent for counties); economic development (27 percent for cities, 25 percent for counties); libraries (25 percent for cities, 36 percent for counties); parks and recreation (54 percent for cities, 45...