Dayton Business Journal
Sequestration to cost Ohio $111 million in lost wages
Joe Cogliano, Senior Reporter- 

Sequestration will suck more than $111 million from Ohio’s economy in lost wages during the first six months after it kicks in and the vast majority of that will come from workers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, according to a U.S. Air Force document obtained by the Dayton Business Journal. 

The document outlines the state-by-state impact of furloughs of civilian workers expected to start in the spring — and run through the end of the fiscal year — if Congress can’t avoid sequestration, the automatic budget cuts set to start in March. 

More than 14,200 workers in Ohio would be affected by furloughs and Wright-Patt officials recently said as many as 13,000 of those employees would be from Dayton. 

The only state on the list with more Air Force workers to be impacted is Oklahoma. About 16,000 workers there are slated for furloughs that would lose more than $124 million in pay. Furloughs would affect about 180,000 civilian workers across the Air Force… 

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