The Friedman Foundation for Economic Choice recently released a study that showed the amount of administrators (non-teachers) in the K-12 public education system has increased over 700 percent since 1950, while the amount of students has increased by only 96 percent. The number of full time employees in the public system has increased 386 percent… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Employment
Press Ignores, Minimizes Concerns in Fed’s Beige Book About ObamaCare’s Effects on Sales, Employment, and Costs
Today, on the third anniversary of the enactment of state-managed healthcare, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka ObamaCare, it's worth noting a precursor of what we can expect from the establishment press as the law's implementation presses on. It can be summed up in eight words: "Hype the alleged good. Ignore… Read more »
Eliminate the Ineffective SNAP Employment and Training Program
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom Senator Pat Roberts’s (R–KS) amendment to the Senate’s budget plan (S.Con.Res. 8) to eliminate funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) Employment and Training Program is a serious attempt at imposing some much-needed fiscal discipline in Congress. According to the Government Accountability Office, officials at SNAP did not track any… Read more »
AP Graphic on Supposedly Steep Decline in Government Employment Starts at 2010 Census Peak
In attempting to make the case that "Even as the private sector has been slowly adding jobs, governments have been shedding them," a chart from the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, shows how public-sector employment (not labeled as "seasonally adjusted," but that's what it is) has declined from a peak of 22.3 million in… Read more »