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Tag: local government employment

State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Bureaucracy, Judicial and Legal, and Public Health Employment and Payroll

Larry Littlefield | April 30, 2016
I will once again end a tabulation of state and local government data from the U.S. Census Bureau with...
Albany, New York

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

Larry Littlefield | April 24, 2016
There are places in this country, generally rural areas, where people don’t get very much from state and local...
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: 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

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

Local Government Employment: Falling But Still Higher than It Was

Larry Littlefield | March 28, 2015
The past five years have been an era of austerity in local government employment. In some states, as I...
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