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I think the more surprising thing about the headline is that Texas needs 3,500,000 employees to run its state government?

• ck2 16y ago
  Texas has a current population of 25 million, now compound that over decades (since it includes retiree databases).
• MediaBehavior 16y ago
  Well, it's a nice fantasy, but first line of story says, "of 3.5 million people." They may be employees somewhere - but not all employees of the state.
  • ck2 16y ago
    Teachers, Workforce Commission, Employees Retirement of Texas. All Texas employees, it's not private workforce.
    • cjeane 16y ago
      The Texas workforce commission is an agency that attempts to place unemployed people in jobs. The records they maintain are largely not on government employees.
      • ck2 16y ago
        Okay, I believe you are correct, title edited.
• cjeane 16y ago
  The title is inaccurate. Many of the records where from State run retirement programs, but not everyone affected is/was a state employee. Texas is a big place. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas(one of the affected organizations) alone has over 1.3 million members.
  • ck2 16y ago
    Title now edited.