By fitsnews – August 24, 2009
The private sector has shed a whopping 7 million jobs since the beginning of the current U.S. economic recession, but state and local governments have added more than 100,000 full-time positions over that same time period – yet another example of America’s burgeoning bass-ackwardness on the employment front.
Since the beginning of the recession in December 2007, state and local governments have added 110,000 jobs, according to a report released last Thursday by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
Government currently represents about 17% of the American workforce – or roughly 22 million jobs, a figure we have no doubt would give even Alexander Hamilton a stroke.
