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Unemployment Plunges to 3.8% for Government Workers; Government Adds 35,000 Jobs in November
CNS News ^ | 12/07/2012 | Terence Jeffrey

Posted on 12/07/2012 8:12:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The unemployment rate for civilian government workers plunged from 4.2 percent in October to 3.8 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as government added 35,000 to its taxpayer-funded payrolls during the month.

In October, federal, state and local governments in the United States employed 20,524,000 people. In November, that climbed to 20,559,000.

As recently as July, the unemployment rate for government workers was as high as 5.7 percent, according to the BLS. That month, government employed only 20,015,000.

Since July, times have been very good for government in the United States, with governments managing to add 544,000 workers to their payrolls.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts someone as a government worker if they are not in the military and they are currently employed by any level of government—local, state or federal—or they are unemployed, they are looking for work, and their last job was for any level of government.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: government; governmentemployees; governmentworkers; govtemployees; joblessclaims; jobs; unemployment
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To: SeekAndFind
0bama is building his (union) 'CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE'.. "Just as strong, Just as well-funded as our military"..
21 posted on 12/07/2012 11:02:57 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Kozak

That’s the goal.

Obamalini wants what Mussolini wanted:
(“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”)


22 posted on 12/07/2012 11:06:28 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: loveliberty2

I’ve said before that today’s liberals were the American Revolution’s Loyalists.


23 posted on 12/07/2012 11:06:41 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: loveliberty2
Tombstone from 1890:


24 posted on 12/07/2012 11:15:40 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: SeekAndFind
The parasite class is growing more powerful. The vast majority of bureaucrats in government (state, local, fed) not only do absolutely nothing to increase the wealth of our country. In reality they undertake actions to purposely destroy our prosperity.

When, not if, the economy collapses, I hope that the parasitic bureaucratic political class is brutally destroyed -- They must lose their fake jobs, their real pensions and their property. They must be left impoverished and living on the streets.

25 posted on 12/07/2012 11:25:10 AM PST by sand88
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
And they are prepared with plenty of ammo:

Obama now has his private army, and put together on our watch..by Fred Brownbill.

 

 

Big Sis Janet Napolitano and the Obama private army working under ICE, has placed an HUGE order for 450,000,000 (YES..MILLION) rounds of 40 caliber ultra high performance optimum penetration for terminal performance rounds from Defense contractors ATK. 

They also have an open order for 175 million rounds of .223 caliber rifle rounds. 

*snip*

Is this the private army that President Barack Hussein Obama said and promised that he would form when running for president, which would be as well equipped and trained as the regular army?  If so, he has it now and it was all done on our watch...

Population of the USA Dec 7, 2012: 314,895,000. Pretty much could do a double tap.
26 posted on 12/07/2012 11:45:21 AM PST by Syncro (The Tea Party is Dead-->MSM/Dems/GOP-e -- LONG LIVE THE TEA PARTY!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d like to understand how if you are unemployed you become a government worker. If you ain’t got a job you are simply unemployed. A government worker is working for a government someplace. If that person looses a job they are no longer a government worker. So how do you come up with 3.8% of them?


27 posted on 12/07/2012 12:33:21 PM PST by Flint
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To: loveliberty2

Our Founding Fathers were brilliant men.


28 posted on 12/07/2012 12:53:23 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: SeekAndFind

146,000 Jobs Added In November, Beat Expectation Of 85,000, Unemployment Rate Lower At 7.7%

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2966530/posts


29 posted on 12/07/2012 2:31:54 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


30 posted on 12/07/2012 10:53:08 PM PST by nutmeg
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