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State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Health Care, Social Services and Housing

Larry Littlefield | April 20, 2016
Health care and social assistance, along with payments to individuals, account for the largest share of government spending for...
Albany, New York

State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Police, Correction and Fire

Larry Littlefield | April 17, 2016
One of the big issues in last year’s New York City budget negotiations was the level of police staffing....
Albany, New York

State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Higher Education

Larry Littlefield | April 15, 2016
In the United States, more government workers are employed in elementary and secondary education than any in other local...
Albany, New York

Cancel This Election

Gatemouth | April 13, 2016
BOB DYLAN: “Now the bricks lay on Grand Street Where the neon madmen climb They all fall there so perfectly...
New York

Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Public Schools

Larry Littlefield | April 13, 2016
Relative to population and even, in some places, in absolute numbers, state and local government employment has fallen in...
Albany, New York

State and Local Government Employment: Census Bureau Data for FY 2014 Compared With FY 2002

Larry Littlefield | April 8, 2016
In 2014 and 2015, I compiled extensive data, and published a bunch of posts, based on Census of Governments...
Albany, New York

The Issue of Unfair Education Funding

Dominic Carter | March 29, 2016
Just throwing money at a problem is NOT a solution….History has shown us that such an approach only adds...
News and Opinion

Local Government Employment: Up in New York in 2015

Larry Littlefield | March 21, 2016
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released rebenchmarked wage and salary employment data for 2015 last Friday, and I took...
Albany, New York

Weekend At Bernie’s

Gatemouth | March 16, 2016
The rest of the Democratic Presidential nominating process is hereby officially re-titled “Weekend at Bernie’s.”межвенцовые утеплители, как сделать оптимальный...
News and Opinion

America’s Debts: Sorry But Things Are Not Fine, and the Foreigners And Minorities Are Not to Blame

Larry Littlefield | March 13, 2016
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/...
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