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Furloughed Jayhawks voice frustrations on Twitter

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Jun 5, 2015 - 3:01pm

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State employees began receiving furlough notices Friday afternoon as a partial Kansas government shutdown moved closer to reality.

Many of the potentially furloughed employees at KU took to Twitter to share how they would be affected and to voice their frustrations with the Kansas Legislature. Follow the discussion at the hashtag #FurloughedJayhawk.

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