Room Eight | Author | Larry Littlefield

State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Infrastructure and Public Amenities

There are places in this country, generally rural areas, where people don’t get very much from state and local...

One of the big issues in last year’s New York City budget negotiations was the level of police staffing....

In the United States, more government workers are employed in elementary and secondary education than any in other local...

Relative to population and even, in some places, in absolute numbers, state and local government employment has fallen in...

In 2014 and 2015, I compiled extensive data, and published a bunch of posts, based on Census of Governments...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released rebenchmarked wage and salary employment data for 2015 last Friday, and I took...

The Federal Reserve Z1 data on U.S. public and private debt was released for 2015 on March 10… http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/...

Let’s start this post the way I ended the one before. Our population is getting older. Labor force participation...

Just based on the news, it would be easy to believe that not much had changed for the federal...