Community | April 03, 2012 | 2 comments

Public-Sector Job Cuts: It’s a Red-State Thing

source: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Public-Sector-Job-Cuts-It-s-a-Red-State-Thing

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Just over a year ago, the 2010 midterm elections saw Republicans seize control of both branches of the legislatures in 11 states. Then, while talking up the notion of job creation, they set about cutting their state and local public workforces with a ferocity unseen in decades. The most recent numbers, according to the Roosevelt Institute, are stark.

The 11 states are Alabama, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together, they eliminated 87,900 state and local public jobs—more than 40 percent of the total cut.

All by itself, Texas—which already was GOP-dominated before 2010—cut 67,900 public-sector jobs, or 31.3 percent.

To put it in perspective, the 11 states have 23 percent of U.S. state and local employees. Texas has 8.5 percent. The job cuts were much higher than their share of the public workforce.

At the same time, many of these newly GOP-dominated states cut corporate taxes, or cut taxes on high-income earners, or—in the case of Wisconsin—both.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Public-Sector-Job-Cuts-It-s-a-Red-State...

http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/sites/all/files/GOPProjectSlashingPublicWorkfo...

http://www.thenation.com/article/167050/red-states-see-massive-public-sector-job...
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2 comments // Public-Sector Job Cuts: It’s a Red-State Thing

  • Kelly_Balthrop
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      Kelly_Balthrop  

    • They cut funding to the states, combined with lower sales taxes. The states are just passing the buck down to the cites here in Nevada. The bar is blue for Nevada, but we have a Republican Governor. At the city of Las Vegas where I work, we have cut about 40% of our workforce since the resession began.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
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