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I was expecting to find that federal employment has grown faster than the US population, but it looks like that's not the case. Since 2000, the federal workforc
by ibejoeb 3y ago
I was expecting to find that federal employment has grown faster than the US population, but it looks like that's not the case. Since 2000, the federal workforce seems to have grown about 14%, while the overall population increased by about 20%.
- mikeyouse 3y agoIf you go back further it’s even more stark - there are 5% fewer Federal employees than there were when Clinton took office, overall population is up 30% and real GDP is up like 120%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cCLR https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cCLR
- jonhohle 3y agoI wouldn’t imagine a government needs to scale proportionally to the population much like a business shouldn’t need to scale proportionally to its customer base. Most businesses should be able to handle twice as many customers with fewer than twice as many employees.