Public Employment Job Losses Continue to Slow the Recovery

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August 5, 2011 at 11:52 am
Nicholas Johnson

July’s employment report included more bad news from states and localities: job losses are continuing. Since August 2008, state and local governments have slashed 611,000 positions, and the cuts have been getting worse — 340,000 of those jobs were lost in the last 12 months. July was the ninth consecutive month, and the 29th out of the last 35, in which total state and local employment shrank.

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The job cuts have been widespread. Since state and local employment peaked in August 2008, payrolls have shrunk by 611,000 jobs:

Local school districts have cut 229,000 positions.
Cities, counties, and other local governments have cut 237,000 positions.
State governments have cut 145,000 positions.

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