PUBLIC SECTOR HIRING

I'm listening to Billy Cunnigham and he and some of his guests & callers are whining about the increase in government payrolls so I'd thought I would go to BLS and look at the numbers. Here's the graph of ALL government (Fed, state & local) employment:



There's been a slight increase from March to May, followed by a decline in June, presumably due to census hirings and firings.

Hannity and other gasbags also claim that state and local government hiring has gone up, so here's the graph for the state governments.



This one is for local governments.