[ronaldx]

You mention that healthcare costs have increased by ~15% per year. But using this percentage (assuming it is true) is misleading.

How does that cost-of-healthcare increase change the overall cost of employing someone? Clue: it's a lot less than 15%.

If you're laying off employees just for this reason, you're either doing something wrong or you're making political excuses.

[jbooth]

When I was serving my community, for 0 pay for the record, I was not looking for reasons to lay off teachers. We took the money we had coming in, looked at our cost increases for the following year (utterly dominated by healthcare), and laid of the number of people we had to in order to pay all our bills. No, it wasn't 15% of the workforce.