Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, graph from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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The spike in "total employment" (including government) in early 2010 is presumably Census hiring. The pattern for the next few months was total employment going up while government employment was going down. And you can see the overall pattern since early 2009 -- including the worrisome very recent slide.
For discussion, see Media Matters and Greg Sargent. And related from our Derek Thompson.
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The spike in "total employment" (including government) in early 2010 is presumably Census hiring. The pattern for the next few months was total employment going up while government employment was going down. And you can see the overall pattern since early 2009 -- including the worrisome very recent slide.
For discussion, see Media Matters and Greg Sargent. And related from our Derek Thompson.
