‘Starving the beast’: public sector jobs decline

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Click on Economic Policy Institute for details (hat tip to Bill Harvey)

One of the reasons for the weakness of the current economic recovery is the loss of public sector jobs—mainly in state and local governments, including school districts.

What Washington should be concerned about

While I’ve been writing about Social Security and minimum wage, employment and unemployment are much more important questions.  These charts are from a web site called Jobenomics by a blogger named Chuck Vollmer.  I think his information is reliable, with the caveat that his “can work – not working” category includes a lot of us retirees who are well past our prime working years (and many of whom do unpaid volunteer work).