Posted on 11/13/2013 7:32:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Going by age demographics, the October 2013 Employment Situation Report released last Friday revealed the following numbers.
The big story, of course, was the partial federal government shut down that saw 815,932 government workers be furloughed at the beginning of October 2013. Here though, that number was quickly cut nearly in half as the Defense department recalled most of the 400,000 civilian employees it furloughed on 4 October 2013 back to work, as they were employed in essential functions.
Since the household survey is taken during the week that includes the 12th day of the month, the recalled defense workers were counted as having jobs at the time the survey was taken, but as many as 415,932 other federal government employees who were considered to be genuinely nonessential remained furloughed, adding to the measured decline in the number of employed Americans for the month.
Given what we know of the federal government's civilian employees, almost all are Age 25 or older, which explains why such a large reduction was seen in that age group's employment figures, while there was virtually no impact upon the employment situation for teens or for young adults stemming from the partial government shut down.
Overall, there were 4,443,000 U.S. teens, 13,654,000 young adults and 125,471,000 adults counted as being employed during October 2013, for a total of 143,568,000, which was 735,000 below the previous months total of 144,303,000 working Americans.
Don't feel bad about the employment situation of the federal government's nonessential employees. All are receiving back pay for not working during the furlough. We suppose that's one way of saying that the U.S. Congress did not recognize any difference in their work output during that time.
Meanwhile, those federal government employees who filed for and collected unemployment benefits from their states during the furlough are being required to pay the government back, as the extra $300 to $500 payments that many furloughed nonessential federal government workers received while on unemployment is considered to be too excessively generous on top of what for them amounted to be a fully paid two-and-a-half-week vacation. That's on top of their regular accrued vacation paid-time off benefits.
No wonder U.S. federal government employees are more likely to die than leave their jobs for the private sector!
I sorely remember that Saturday when the GOP in House rushed a bill through to make sure they would all get paid furloughed or not.
A woman I know here works for the Federal government and she told me she loves it when ‘you guys’ (her words to me) shut down the government because she gets more paid vacation, two weeks more this time. Three weeks in the 1996 one.
She also said ‘You guys caved too soon.I wanted another week off’
Not kidding!
a question - How does the number of federal employees furloughed during the government shut down compare with the number of federal hires since Obama took office??
a question - How does the number of federal employees furloughed during the government shut down compare with the number of federal hires since Obama took office??
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