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MoDOT to eliminate 500 more jobs within the next two years.

Date: October 6, 2011
By: Jenner Smith
State Capitol Bureau

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The Missouri Department of Transportation will eliminate 500 more jobs within the next two years.
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Wrap: The Missouri Department of Transportation has cut nearly 700 jobs and plans to eliminate 500 more by March of 2013.

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission chair Grace Nichols says MoDOT jobs are not guaranteed. 

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Description: "Somebody comes along that has more skills than you have, than they get your job. It's not that they're picking on certain areas. It's state wide. Every job is available to other workers throughout the state.'So, no one is safe?' No one is safe."

  
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Jenner Smith
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Only one Missouri Department of Transportation job is safe for the next two years.
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Wrap: Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission chair Grace Nichols says only MoDOT maintenance workers are not at risk of losing their jobs. 

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Description: "They're the ones that do all the hard work for MoDOT and so we didn't want to cut any of those positions because people need those people. We need the other ones too but its not quite the crisis situation as the maintenance people are."

Nichols says other MoDOT employees have switched positions or have left the department since June after a five-year plan was implemented due to budget cuts.  

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Jenner Smith.