A new Heritage Foundation study shows that government employees work around three hours less per week and roughly one month less per year than private-sector workers. Substantial differences in work time persist even after controlling for occupational and skill differences between sectors. The “underworked” government employee should obviously be of concern to taxpayers, who expect… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Privatesector
ADP says the private-sector added 176,000 jobs in June. Can we trust it?
The May jobs report was a bummer: The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added a measly 69,000 positions. The question since then has been: Was May a bad month? Or is it the beginning of a sharp deterioration in the economy? Today, the ADP payroll survey — a closely watched estimate of private-sector… Read more »
Harry Reid, October 2011: ‘Private-sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine’
Last year, Harry Reid said pretty close to the same thing President Obama said on Friday about the health of the nation's private sector. Obama claimed that "The private sector is fine." On the Senate floor on October 19, Reid claimed that "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine." Don't feel… Read more »
The Private-Sector Space Challenge to China
The SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to Earth after delivering nearly a half-ton of supplies in the first purely commercial replenishment mission to the International Space Station (ISS). With its successful completion, SpaceX is now on its way to providing a private-sector alternative for keeping the ISS supplied, with 12 flights scheduled through 2016 under… Read more »