True or false: The number of United States Federal employees in 2010 is lower than in 1975.
Answer: True and False!
True: If you factor out the temporary census employees, you’ll find that the number of federal government employees is slightly lower than in 1975.
False: But of course 2010 is a census year which creates a short-lived spike in Federal employment.
True or false: The number of Federal employees dropped during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Answer: False.
Fact checking can be done at BLS or the various blogs such as Calculated Risk and Econbrowser
Frankly I was knocked sideways by the facts. They just didn’t square with everything I’ve heard from all sorts of politicians over the past 10 years.
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