I read somewhere, and it was a while back, that 1 in 8 people in the U.S. work in some government capacity. Can that be true?
I believe there is something like 100 million people in the USA workforce so it likely to have 12.5% or 12.5 million getting a government paycheck.
There are a lot of people at the Federal, State, and Local Payroll Window. We have to look at employees at all levels of government as there are millions of state and local employees who are funded by the Federal govt.
Besides the government employees there are millions of contract workers who are hired to do the work not being done by the government workers.