Fema Employment
How much has Government Employment increased since Obama took Office?
Please cite a source.
Public Comments
- 273,000 fewer employees than Reagan.
- It has decreased.
- Not as much as obama wants, and not as much as GWB, but government is growing. Now this does not include obamacare. Federal Jobs Increase 11.7% Since 2007 http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/22/federal-workforce-continues-to-grow-under-obama-budget/ Federal Workers Making 150k Has Soared 10 Tenfold In 5 Years http://blogs.forbes.com/brianwingfield/2010/11/10/more-federal-workers-pay-tops-150000-usatoday-com/
- Has Government Grown Since the Recession Started? December 28, 2010 11:11 A.M. By Veronique de Rugy Many conservatives and small-government advocates have made the case that the number of government employees has increased or, at least, that they are in a better situation than private sector employees during this recession. Paul Krugman of the New York Times wants them to admit that it is not true. If you read what right-wingers say about the economy — and even alleged moderate conservatives, like Tim Pawlenty — you see, over and over again, the assertion that under Obama, government employment has risen sharply even as private employment has fallen. And you even get numbers, like Pawlenty’s assertion that 590,000 public sector jobs have been added. Yet the data say otherwise. What’s going on? What’s going on, he says, is that conservatives are blinded by their ideological bias and fail to understand that growth in public employment was only the product of “the Census, which temporarily employed a lot of people, as it does every decade.” He even points to a piece I wrote on this blog about the growth in the size of government as evidence of such biases. Never mind that this blog post was written back in July and was correct about the number of government jobs created back then. Never mind that the point in my blog post was that the stimulus, which we were told would create 3.5 million jobs, 90 percent of which would be in the private sector, had failed on both counts. Most of the jobs reported created on Recovery.gov were government jobs, and that has consequences. Note that he doesn’t question the number of government jobs created from January 2008 to June 2010 that I gave back in July; he just claims that these jobs were only a temporary increase in the federal workforce due to Census workers. To be sure, once the temporary Census employees were let go, the number of jobs that the government added to its payroll since the beginning of the recession went down considerably. Yet, back in July, the Census was not the only factor explaining the gain in public employment. In fact, Krugman has a chart in his blog post (copied below) that shows public employment growing long after the beginning of the recession and independently of the Census boost. As we can see on this chart, government employment grew throughout 2008 until April 2009. By the end of the recession (shaded areas on the chart), and in spite of a drop at the end, government employment was much higher than when the recession started. Interestingly, we see that during both recessions — 2001 and 2008 — government employment grew significantly. Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between January 2008 and April 2009 (the height of public employment since the start of the recession) public employment grew by roughly 300,000 jobs. During that time, the private sector shrank by 6.7 million jobs.
- According to the US Census data: 2007: 2.73 million Federal + 14.7 million State & Local Employees 2008: 2.77 million Federal + 14.85 million State & Local Employees 2009: 2.82 million Federal + 14.95 million State & Local Employees 2010: Federal data not yet available + 14.78 million State & Local Employees What this shows: While 2010 federal data is not yet available, I would suspect it would be up, even though State & Local employment was down that year. The fact is - government employment has increased since Obama has taken office. Wages have also increased. Feel free to check it out, interesting stuff.
