{"id":45887,"date":"2012-04-10T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/2012\/04\/07\/the-shrinking-public-sector\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T23:31:45","slug":"the-shrinking-public-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/10\/the-shrinking-public-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shrinking Public Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/2012\/04\/07\/the-shrinking-public-sector\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reports from the Economic Front<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>While the press cheers on every sign of private sector job creation, little attention is being paid to public sector job destruction.\u00a0 As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/public-sector-job-losses-unprecedented-drag\/\">Economic Policy Institute<\/a> reports, while there has been an increase of some 2.8 million private sector jobs since June 2009, public sector employment (federal, state, and local governments combined) has actually fallen by approximately 600,000. \u00a0As the figure below reveals, this is a very unusual development . <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/04\/wwwepiorg.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/04\/wwwepiorg.png\" alt=\"wwwepiorg.png\" width=\"511\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Economic Policy Institute, if the percentage growth of public sector employment in this recovery had followed past recovery trends, we would have an additional 1.2 million public sector jobs and some 500,000 additional private sector jobs. A separate reason for concern about this trend is that lost public sector jobs generally means a decline in\u00a0the services that we need to\u00a0sustain our communities.\u00a0 The withering away of our public sector\u00a0during a period of expansion should worry us all. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the press cheers on every sign of private sector job creation, little attention is being paid to public sector job destruction.\u00a0 As the Economic Policy Institute reports, while there has been an increase of some 2.8 million private sector jobs since June 2009, public sector employment (federal, state, and local governments combined) has actually [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,12498,304,76],"class_list":["post-45887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-the-state","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46038,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions\/46038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}