The Government Is Still Getting Bigger – The Washington Standard

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The good news is that the federal government workforce is getting smaller, but state and local governments are more than compensating for it. While the federal workforce shrank by 7,000, state workforces ballooned by 47,000 as part of a 73,000 increase in the government sector. The situation is so bad that government jobs accounted for …

The Government is Still Getting Bigger

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The Government Is Still Getting Bigger – The Washington Standard

The good news is that the federal government workforce is getting smaller, but state and local governments are more than compensating for it. While the federal workforce shrank by 7,000, state workforces ballooned by 47,000 as part of a 73,000 increase in the government sector. The situation is so bad that government jobs accounted for half the jobs in June. Private sector jobs came in only slightly ahead at 74,000. And the term “private sector”…