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> December's job gains were concentrated in government and health care. How can job gains be in government? Does that mean size of government is growing?
by jjtheblunt 3y ago
> December's job gains were concentrated in government and health care.
How can job gains be in government? Does that mean size of government is growing?
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- Jtsummers 3y ago> How can job gains be in government? By gaining more employees than they lost. > Does that mean size of government is growing? In the literal sense of increasing staffing, yes. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf > Government employment increased by 52,000 in December. Employment continued to trend up in local government (+37,000) and federal government (+7,000). Government added an average of 56,000 jobs per month in 2023, more than double the average monthly gain of 23,000 in 2022.
- SystemOut 3y agoOn a recent Moody's economics podcast they did not think this was the case. Rather this job growth in government was more about back-filling positions they had struggled to fill when the private sector had been pushing up wages and pulling people out of government jobs.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoThat sounds plausible; thanks.
- brohoolio 3y agoIt could have been a surge of temps at USPS to handle holiday mail volume.
- tuatoru 3y agoDoes "government" include teachers, police, and fire-fighters?