Public Sector Jobs Feeling the Pinch

While the news appeared positive in last week's jobs report, the public sector was significantly worse, with 20,000 government workers laid off in November alone.

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December 5, 2011, 1:00 PM PST

By Cathie Pagano

The NY Times editorial says that the public sector took a bigger hit than any other job sector:

According to the editiorial, "Many Republicans, however, don't regard government jobs as actual jobs, and are eager to see them disappear. Republican governors around the Midwest have aggressively tried to break the power of public unions while slashing their work forces, and Congressional Republicans have proposed paying for a payroll tax cut by reducing federal employment rolls by 10 percent through attrition. That's 200,000 jobs, many of which would be filled by blacks and Hispanics and others who tend to vote Democratic, and thus are considered politically superfluous."

Thanks to Cathie Pagano

FULL STORY: Pain in the Public Sector

Sunday, December 4, 2011 in The New York Times

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