January 9, 2015
OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:
The percent of employed people working for the federal government is at the lowest level on record (Philip Bump, January 9, 2015, Washington Post)
If you break out the data on federal employees (which goes back further than the other two), you see the point mentioned at the top of this post. Less than two percent -- 1.94 percent, to be precise -- of the total United States workforce is employed by the federal government. (The peak in the 1940s was World War II.)This isn't all a function of recent political opposition to big government; the trend began in the 1950s. But it does run counter to a common perception of an ever-expanding bureaucratic state.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 9, 2015 1:31 PM
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