Claim: "The total  payroll has gone down. The total amount of the number of workers in the state has gone down. I like the fact that the bulk of that is just by retirements."
Fact-check: John Kasich says the state's payroll is smaller and retirements have reduced employee numbers
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Joe Guillen
Date published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00