actually, last month and the month before, the number of private sector jobs created were canceled out by the number of government jobs terminated.
reality, it's quite a concept.
yes quite a concept....
But James Hohman, assistant director for fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, disagrees. He said private-sector jobs have been hit harder than public-sector jobs since the recession started in December 2007.
The private sector has lost 6.3 million jobs, a 5.4 percent drop, since December 2007, while the public sector has only lost 1.8 percent, or 392,000 jobs, in that same time, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The public sector had 22.3 million jobs in December 2007 and dropped to 21.2 million in September 2011. The private sector had 115.6 million jobs in December 2007 and it dropped to 109.3 million as of September 2011.
Hohman said the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 protected many government jobs.
“The private sector is still way down and they should not be asked to support government jobs that have been protected from a recession,” Hohman said.
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Harry Reid Misreads Facts on Public/Private Job Losses [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
why would i care about what some uber rightwing "thinktank says"? i've never seen anything true come out of randians.
so, apparently the data doesn't suit you.
*shrugs* I know you don't read and just fly by the seat of your broom , dropping off you rabbit pellets of wisdom, loon here here, wingnut there....but this is pretty basic stuff to find even for you.... denial aint a river in Egypt bubbula;
According to the White House budget office, the federal executive branch had 1.875 million civilian full-time equivalent employees when the financial crisis hit in 2008. Two years later, that number had risen by 253,000 jobs to 2.128 million, a 13.5% increase.
The budget office predicted earlier this year that the number would fall slightly to 2.101 million in fiscal 2011, which ended on September 30, but then rise again in 2012 to 2.116 million. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in September that overall federal government employment had fallen by 30,000 jobs from September 2010, but that's after the rapid rise under President Obama. There's been no jobs recession in the Beltway.
So perhaps Mr. Reid is referring to state and local government jobs? Well, the Labor Department report for September shows that state governments have cut payrolls by all of 49,000 since September 2010, to 5.089 million. Local governments have reduced employment at a somewhat faster pace—by 210,000 workers in the last year, to 14.076 million.
The pace of these state and local cuts have picked up this year, as the federal stimulus spending has declined. But Democrats promised in 2009 that the stimulus would be temporary—to help states get through the recession. State and local governments now have no choice but to cut workers, as they adjust to a new and reduced level of tax revenue thanks to the slow economic recovery.
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Review & Outlook: Harry Reid's Jobs Math - WSJ.com
and heres a chart from the BLS;
you are of course always free to like *gasp*, refute the data.
