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More wonderful fact: Government employes 24 million people. This include state and federal and all jobs paid for by government such as teachers. So about 1 in e
by sytelus 10y ago
More wonderful fact: Government employes 24 million people. This include state and federal and all jobs paid for by government such as teachers. So about 1 in every 6 person works for government.
- computerphage 10y agoNumber of "people" in the us: 318.9 million (2014) => more like 1 in 13. Also, I'm pretty sure that 24 million figure includes the military.
- djrogers 10y agoOnly about 150 million americans actually work [1]https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat08.htm https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat08.htm
- dragonwriter 10y agoPeople who don't work are still people, so the total number of workers has no bearing on the accuracy of the claim that 1/6 people in the US work for the government. The only relevant numbers are the ~24 million government workers and the ~320 million people. Which make the claim false.
- r00fus 10y agos/person works/workers work/ and it's legit. In fact it's closer to 1 in 5 even [1]. ~125M workers, 24M work for the government. I wonder how many of those think the government should get our of their lives? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthly-number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthl...