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Monday, January 11, 2010

Government Payroll Has Now Replaced Goods-Producing Jobs

http://seekingalpha.com/article/180879-employment-chart-goods-producing-vs-government-jobs
The Goods Producing category currently includes less than a million workers in mining and logging, about 6 million in construction, and 11.7 million in manufacturing.

The Government category includes 2.8 million federal employees and almost 20 million state and local workers, just over half of whom work in education.

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