Posted on 05/25/2015 3:20:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....Roughly one in five black adults works for the government, teaching school, delivering mail, driving buses, processing criminal justice and managing large staffs. They are about 30 percent more likely to have a public sector job than non-Hispanic whites, and twice as likely as Hispanics.
The Labor Department counts half a million fewer public sector jobs than before the start of the recession in 2007...understates just how much the government’s work force has shrunk.... because it fails to account for the normal growth in the country’s population: Factor that in, she said, and there are 1.8 million fewer jobs in the public sector for people to fill.
The decline reverses a historical pattern, researchers say, with public sector employees typically holding onto their jobs even during most economic downturns.
Because blacks hold a disproportionate share of the jobs, relative to their share of the population, the cutbacks naturally hit them harder.
But black workers overall, women in particular, also lost their jobs at a higher rate than whites..“double disadvantage for black public sector workers...They are concentrated in a shrinking sector of the economy, and they are substantially more likely than other public sector workers to be without work.”.....
...Even now, with the economy regaining strength, public sector employment has still not bounced back. An incomplete recovery is part of the reason, but a combination of strong anti-government and anti-tax sentiment in some places has kept down public payrolls. At the same time, attempts to curb collective bargaining, like those led by Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, a likely Republican presidential candidate, have weakened public unions.............
....some researchers and union officials also see a racial undercurrent in the campaigns.
“With public employment in general being under attack, it’s really an attack on these communities,” said Mr. Bodner of the Philadelphia transit workers union, referring to black people......"
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
In 2012, Romney raised this point with his “47%” comment. A growing share of people (especially unionized government employees) depend on big, well-funded government to supply their income. Rather than stating this obvious fact to one an all, though, Romney just said it once to a group of supporters, and then scuttled away from it when outed.
Here’s the thing: the government does not exist to provide unnecessary, over-paid jobs for lazy people. Now, many people believe that is exactly what the government exists for, but they are mistaken.
“At Stanford University, Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine, a 21-year-old senior, was scribbling notes in the back row of her modern Japanese history class recently, listening as her professor cataloged the misdeeds of the American military in occupied postwar Japan.
“People became increasingly resentful of the U.S. military presence,” the professor said. “There were crimes by U.S. Army personnel — rapes and murders.”
A good indication of why younger members of our society feel the way they do about America.
They usually do.
If they cut the overall military 500,000 and “only” add 250,000 TSA, DEA, ATF etc agents they can claim 250,000 government jobs have been “cut”.
When can we expect racial quota’s to be enforced upon government workers as they have on the private sector that contracts with them...
I think we need to prioritize the layoffs and outright firing of “people of color” in government employment and a freeze on their hiring until they reach parity with the general population and create an enforcement method with the courts.
It’s only fair.
Well, that's a surprise.
“”” But as the article notes, it hasn’t exempted the public sector.””””
Maybe. I don’t think the public sector is in any danger. But, that’s what this article is about- whining that they SHOULD be exempt from any down turn in the economy.
I think this is the primary reason blacks vote democrat...many blacks work for the government and the democrats want more government (therefore more jobs) while republicans claim to want to reduce the size of government (fewer jobs).
Does Diebold know that?
Oregon is going to pilot that program this year.
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