Current Government-Employment News Results

State and Local Government Employment Remains at 16.6 Million - Kansas City infoZine
Many States Show Wide Variation in Government Employment From 2008 to 2009 Washington, D.C. - infoZine - The nation's 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009 ...

Census Report Government Employment - Southeast Missourian
The Census Bureau reports that state and local government employment remains at 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees (FTE) in 2009 (includes both full and part-time employees). This number is statistically ...

Jobless Rate 9.6 Percent In August; Private Payrolls Up By 67,000 - NPR News
the Bureau of Labor Statistics just reported . Private employers added 67,000 jobs to their payrolls, BLS also said. But a drop in government employment (much of it due to the laying off of temporary Census workers ...

Stock market kicks off September with strong gains - AP - msnbc.com
The Institute for Supply Management ... the 19,000 economists expected. The ADP report is often considered a gauge for the government's monthly employment report, which is due out Friday. The Labor Department's data ...

Stocks kick off new month with strong gains - Forbes
The ADP report is often considered a gauge for the government's monthly employment report, which is due out Friday. The Labor Department's data also includes government employment so it is a broader reading on the ...

Unemployment inched up in August - Philadelphia Daily News
with government employment falling by 121,000 as 114,000 census workers were laid off. That pushed the overall jobs number down, offsetting a modest increase of 67,000 jobs in the private sector. Nearly 17,000 of the ...

Unemployment rate climbed to 9.6 percent in August, although private-sector ... - Kansas City Star
largely because government employment fell by 121,000. The drop was mostly due to the end of 114,000 temporary Census Bureau jobs. On balance, the report was “positive news, and it reflects the steps we’ve ...

Jobless rate hits 9.6%; 54,000 jobs lost - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
it was government employment that fell. "This growth is consistent with other recent data reports indicating that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than in the early spring ...

Alaska Hopeful Often Worked for Taxpayers - New York Times
he has spent much of his life in some form of government employment or service. The military helped educate him. At one point in 2002, he worked simultaneously as an acting state district judge and a part-time ...