Health costs rise for Torrance teachers as a result of layoff fears
By Rob Kuznia/Los Angeles Daily Breeze
In an example of the unexpected consequences that can come in the wake of widespread layoffs, the cost of health benefits for hundreds of teachers that survived last year's bloodbath at the Torrance Unified School District is skyrocketing. Last school year, with hundreds of teachers and other district employees fearing for their jobs - as well as their attendant health benefits - an unusually large number of them visited their doctors to take care of procedures and checkups they'd long been putting off. (more...)