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Europe’s largest local authority went bankrupt over equal pay claims worth up to $1 billion—turns out, it may not bleed too much money on it after all
FortuneFinancial difficulties for the Birmingham City Council, which represents over 1 million people, have been mounting—but it’s not the only one in the U.K.