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 ...
I will also note, that increased racial tension across the country has been spurred on by former USAJ Eric Holder and President Barack Obama to deflect attention away from their administration's failed policies [as well as opportunistically placing the blame - as this article tries to do - on others for their own actions].
Economy shrinks = less money in government coffers = less money for government jobs.
Increased crime rates for young males is directly tied to lack of jobs.
The Black Market (can I use that term?) is thriving in America’s inner cities.
This garbage is based on the idea that public sector workers are exempt from downturns in the economy. Regardless of what happens in the private sector gubmint workers should thrive.
So, now it’s official, wanting smaller more efficient government is racist.
Only this Leftist rag would bemoan the decrease in government jobs for affirmative action hires. If 50% of government workers disappeared, the only noticeable result would be that the surrounding VA counties wouldn’t be the richest in the nation during this economic depression. Over-paid, top-heavy government is always the death of a nation.
Points of bullsh##
(Yes, I know that the majority of Hispanics are US citizens and speak English.)
Just some observations. Hispanics aren’t moving into inner-city neighborhoods. Black population in urban ghetto environments hasn’t decreased since the 1960s (even with shootings going on in record numbers....they don’t leave). Job creation in inner-city regions....non-existent and other than city/state/federally generated jobs....they aren’t any since the 1960s.
All of this ought to make you ask why inner-city neighborhoods survive.
>>> The Labor Department counts half a million fewer public sector jobs than before the start of the recession in 2007 ...... <<<
(Sort of) YEAH? We have Obama to thank for the so-called ‘shrinking our gubmint’?
Labor Dept statistics did or did not account for such loss of public sector jobs occurred at local level or the federal gubmint? It sure looked like Obama greatly expanded the fed.
>>>> ... Even now, with the economy regaining strength, public sector employment has still not bounced back. ....
Again, this ‘economy rebound’ these guys keep telling us is not wide spread. Public sector employees (esp. non-essential personnel) are notoriously hard to get rid of, why should local government expand these just for the heck of it?
It's a time-honored technique of despots. It's like starting a fire in front of the building to distract everyone while you steal stuff out the back door.
But as the article notes, it hasn't exempted the public sector.
But government revenues are up, not down.
What this shows is that tax revenues are going to Obama’s cronies and their scams, and the unions, and ISIS, rather than to actual government employees.
Exactly. Funny thing, when cities go bankrupt due to Dem policies they lay people off.
Wonder if they are including the down sized Military in those numbers?
How many military families (many are black) have been hurt by Obama's shrinking of our forces?
How many small businesses have gone under (or are in a holding pattern) because of Obamacare, EPA, minimum wage going up, taxes (inc corporations that are fleeing the country)? Small businesses employ the most people.
“But as the article notes, it hasn’t exempted the public sector. “
Around here there has been a dramatic upswing in code enforcement fines. They’ve cut down the time allowed for a yellow light at the intersections with cameras. They hired more cops who look like teenagers and positioned them on what were major thoroughfares where they lowered the speed limit to 25 mph. Several other places they reduced the speed limit by 10 mph for very short distances, but only where its easy to hide. My county has a $500k budget item marked income from code enforcement. If they don’t get that money they have to lay off. There are so many codes that many of us are in violation and have no idea we are.
You read my mind (post #15)
Look how that was addressed in the LA Times yesterday:
Special Report U.S. military and civilians are increasingly divided
Good question, are our Military un-proportionally black?
RACISM!!!
From link in Post #17:
“Jovano Graves’ parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But their son refused his parents’ pleas to try college. He followed them both into the Army instead.
Last June, 11 years later, Staff Sgt. Jovano Graves returned home from Afghanistan, joining his mother, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sonia Graves-Rivers, for duty here at Ft. Bragg.
“My family, going way, way back, has always felt so proud to be Americans,” said Graves-Rivers, who comes from a family in which military service spans six generations, starting with her great-great-grandfather, Pfc. Marion Peeples, who served in a segregated black unit during World War I.
Her father, Cpl. Harvey Lee Peeples, fought in the Vietnam War. Her uncle, Henry Jones, was career Air Force. Another uncle, Sgt. 1st Class Robert Graves, spent 22 years in the Army. Her sister, Janice, served 24 years.”
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