Government Employment since 1976

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not see that what is NOT there, is what they think is...

ex-military, there has not been any increase in govt employment.

no war, no jobs!

 

Try to sell that at your Tea Party.

 

The 3rd chart is stunning, with your mourning Tea...!!!

When you back out military employment, non-military employment has gone down.

They are lying to you.

They know it and don't care.

Most of U.S. don't know, and don't care.

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REMEMBER: go to the CR web site for the LARGE charts!
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This graph shows federal, state, and local government employment as a percent of the civilian noninstitutional population since 1976 (all data from the BLS).

Federal government employment has decreased over the last 35 years (mostly in the 1990s), state government employment has been flat, and local government employment has increased.
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The second graph shows government employment excluding education as a percent of the civilian noninstitutional.

The percent of federal and state government employment (ex-education) have all declined. Local government employment has been steady - so overall government employment (ex-education) as a percent of the civilian population is down over the last 35 years.

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There has been a surge in defense spending, but Federal spending ex-defense and state and local spending has been fairly flat (but as I noted above, underfunded future liabilities - like state and local underfunded pension plans - don't show up).

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Government Employment since 1976
by CalculatedRisk on 9/09/2010 12:23:00 PM
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/09/government-employment-since-1976.html
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