Thousands of Lebanese teachers, civil servants and children rallied outside parliament on Wednesday in the biggest of a year of pay protests as the assembly debated a much-delayed bill on public sector salaries. The International Monetary Fund last week urged Lebanon to implement structural reforms to balance its budget deficit, and called for public sector pay restraint. But feelings among public sector workers are running high. \"You can't live on our salaries,\" Laurent Chidiac, a primary school drama teacher who travelled 13 miles from the Christian seaside town of Jounieh to Beirut.
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