A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
There are many differences between the president’s terms. Overall employment was smaller in the ’80s, so a different comparison might be to look at the percentage change. Of course the participation rate was increasing in the ’80s (younger population and women joining the labor force), and the participation rate is declining now. But these graphs give an overview of employment changes.
Continue reading… “What job creation looked like under the last six presidents”
Job security for U.S. government workers tops those in the private sector.
Job security for federal employees is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, according to a USA Today analysis.
Continue reading… “Federal employees are more likely to die of natural causes than lose their jobs”
Over half of Americans think federal workers are paid too much.
More than half of Americans say they think that federal workers are overpaid for the work they do, and more than a third think they are less qualified than those working in the private sector, according to a Washington Post poll.
Continue reading… “New Poll Finds Americans Hold a Negative View of Federal Workers”
The September jobs report was just released and demonstrates that America is on a far slower path to recovery than anyone originally predicted. Despite this, the shedding of government jobs cloaks a glimmer of hope: more private sector jobs have been created this year than during the entire Bush administration. Read that again: 2010 has had more private job creation than during the entire 8 year tenure of George W. Bush.
True, it’s still a lot like being a judge at a skunk stinking competition, but maybe, just maybe, there is a glimmer of hope.
This is the 9th straight month of private sector job growth in the midst of a devastating recession that has put a serious strain mostly on the poor and middle class. There has been a total of 863,000 private sector jobs created in 2010, exceeding the total created under the Bush/Cheney regime…
