One From The Vault

Bargaining Isn't To Blame

How does eliminating collective bargaining reduce deficits?

"States with no collective bargaining rights for any public employees saw an average budget shortfall of 24.8 percent in 2010 while states (including the District of Columbia) with collective bargaining for all public employees had an average budget shortfall of 24.1 percent."

For Further Reading:

The Relationship Between Union Membership & State Budget Deficits

Right To Work For Less

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Presidential Administrations & Government Employment

Spot The Socialists

The U.S.'s Shrinking Government & The Unemployment Rate

U.S. Government Workers Edition

Government Getting Smaller In The U.S.

Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1%

Republicans Like Big Government

... at least according to their administrations' policies and outcomes.



Maddow Hits Romney For Using 'Overpaid' Firefighters For Photo Op

The Surprisingly Shrinking Government Footprint

Huge Cuts In Public Employment

Paul Krugman notes, "Here’s a comparison of changes in government employment (federal, state, and local) during the first four years of three presidents who came to office amid a troubled economy. That spike early on is Census hiring; once that was past, the Obama years shaped up as an era of huge cuts in public employment compared with previous experience. If public employment had grown the way it did under Bush, we’d have 1.3 million more government workers, and probably an unemployment rate of 7 percent or less."