{"id":5769,"date":"2011-09-03T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2011-09-03T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:06:24","slug":"public-sector-leads-in-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/public-sector-leads-in-job-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Sector Leads in Job Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

While private sector employment continues to show only small gains, because not enough consumers have the resources to spend, the biggest job losses have come in the public sector.  This is especially true in red states, where draconian spending cuts to finance Republican welfare for millionaires, billionaires, and criminal corporations have caused the termination of hundreds of thousands of state and local level public employees.  This is just one of the ways Republicans are sandbagging the economy for political gain.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Since the onset of the current (horribly slow) economic recovery more than two years ago, state and local governments have shed over 600,000 jobs<\/strong>. Compare this to the same point in the recovery for the past three recessions (early 1980s, early 1990s, and early 2000s), where state and local governments created roughly 290,000, 490,000 and 240,000 jobs respectively.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has lost over 60 percent of these jobs in our current recovery and will continue to do so unless policymakers start making the necessary public sector investments<\/strong> \u2014 such as in education. Continuing to cut state and local budgets has an extremity destructive impact on our recovery efforts. <\/p>\n

As Matthew Yglesias explained, \u201cconservatives complain about the results because the President is a Democrat named Barack Obama. But the policy result is what conservatives say they want<\/font><\/strong>. Steady cuts to the government sector, offset somewhat by private sector growth<\/a>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Republicans are working hard to cause the failure they are blaming on Obama.  But Obama is to blame only in that he has failed to stand up to them and say NO to seditious Republican blackmail.  Next week, he will have an opportunity to turn that corner.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann discussed the need for Obama to present a bold jobs plan and challenge Republicans to cooperate, or else, with Author, Jeff Madrick.<\/font><\/p>\n