Cuba layoffs looming

Workers preparing food at a cafeteria in Havana, Cuba. After the announcenment made this week by Cuba’s government that it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011, the island leaders have already determined what workers should do after being dismissed from their jobs, detailing a plan for them to raise rabbits, paint buildings, make bricks, collect garbage and pilot ferries across Havana’s bay.