Dec 28, 2010 ... Not bad during a recession. State employment grew by 42,000 employees. It is  local governments that have been cutting jobs, almost since the beginning of the  recession. They cut 258,000 jobs. As a reminder, the total private sector has lost  7.2 million jobs since January 2008. So let's recapitulate: Private ...
By contrast, union membership in the public sector topped 7.9 million, or 37.4  percent of all federal, state, and local government jobs. ... There was a time when  even pro-labor Democrats objected to public-sector unionism. .... Between  January 2008 and June 2010, the American private sector lost roughly 8 million  jobs.
Nov 7, 2011 ... "Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local,  state and federal governments added 590,000." It's with good reason Politifact  branded Pawlenty's fabrication a "Pants On Fire" lie. With the temporary surge for  the 2010 U.S. Census long since over, by the end of the 2010 the ...
Apr 12, 2011 ... Eight million jobs were lost in the Great Recession, and the labor and housing  markets remain painfully weak. Even Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal  Reserve Board from 1997 to 2005 and a leading proponent of market self- regulation, has admitted that this approach failed during the crisis. And, as ...
The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the  United States, commissioned in 2010 and now owned solely by TransCanada  Corporation. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to  refineries in Illinois and Texas, and also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline  distribution ...
Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000.