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“As the recession deepens, the only industry in the private sector adding jobs in significant numbers is health care, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it is doing so across the board, from physician to bed pan attendant.
Government used to be a refuge, particularly postal work and public school teaching. But the post office has been shrinking its payroll for several years. Secondary school employment mainly kindergarten through high school rose through August to nearly 8.1 million jobs, but it has fallen each month since as declining tax revenue forces cutbacks.
Those cutbacks rarely apply to math and science teachers, who are often in short supply. Teaching math in a high school in an affluent suburb, said Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer in Chicago and a Democratic candidate for Congress, that is my idea of the ultimate safe job.
As the recession deepens, the only industry in the private sector adding jobs in significant numbers is health care, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it is doing so across the board, from physician to bed pan attendant.
Uhmmm. Health care is not in the private sector. It is primarily a government reimbursment program