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3.6 Percent Unemployment--for Government Workers

Whitewing

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There is a bright spot in the March jobless numbers, if government is your line of work.

The unemployment rate for civilian government workers dropped to 3.6 percent in March from 3.8 percent in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In February, there were 828,000 unemployed federal, state and local governments in the United States. In March, that declined to 786,000.

In July 2012, the unemployment rate for government workers was as high as 5.7 percent, according to the BLS, and the rate has been in a steady decline since. The current unemployment for government workers at 3.6 percent is the lowest rate since April 2011.

Since July, times have been very good for government in the United States, with governments managing to add 618,000 workers to their payrolls. In March, there were 20,633,000 total government workers in the U.S. In July the government employed 20,015,000 people.

The report also noted that within government, that employment for the U.S. Postal Service, which is planning to cut Saturday mail delivery, fell by 12,000 in March.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts someone as a government worker if they are not in the military and they are currently employed by any level of government—local, state or federal—or they are unemployed, they are looking for work, and their last job was for any level of government.

Let the good times roll.
 

Tam

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With that drop in unemployment rate for government workers one has to wonder what happen to all those furloughed due to the Sequester???? :?
 

Tam

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hypocritexposer said:
Tam said:
With that drop in unemployment rate for government workers one has to wonder what happen to all those furloughed due to the Sequester???? :?

they have ads out looking to hire 1000s. :lol:

Yep I hear they need 1000's of advisors to help people navigate Obamacare. and those navigators will be getting $48 per hour. Maybe they should have hired a few to read it to the Congressmen before they passed it, so they could see what a big mistake they are stuffing down the throats of people that didn't want to swallow it.

Oh and then you have the 1000's more they will have to hire at the IRS to enforce the mandate that says everyone in the US has to buy something just because they are breathing. :x

I suggest they sequester all those people and repeal the mistake before they waste any more money and jobs on it.
 
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