The Trump administration is breathing new life into the age-old question about the size of the federal workforce, as agencies prepare to reorganize, shift resources and cut personnel in the name of efficiency.
The question came up on day one, when President Donald Trump introduced a temporary hiring freeze to “counter the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years,” as the new administration described it in January.
But according to Paul Light, a public policy professor at New York University, and a special adviser to the chairman of the Volcker Alliance, the number of federal employees has remained more or less the same over the past several decades. Rather, it’s the number of contractors and grant employees supporting government work that’s trended upward over the years.
About 2 million federal employees, 3.7 million contractors, nearly 1.6 million grant employees, 1.3 million active-duty military members and 492,000 postal workers all make up the “blended federal workforce,” Light said in his latest reporton the topic.
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15 comments:
Too damn many!
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This is true. Not as many fed employees- its the contractors. Honor our fed employees.
The question is how many work, not how many have federal jobs.
That workforce is a well oiled machine designed to enslave entire populations including the US citizens who pay about half of all their wealth to the government in one form or another. Maybe more than half.
It is the definition of tyranny.
Waaay tooo many!
We could easily get rid of a third of the federal employees because they could not interview and compete for their exact job in the civilian workforce - so they shouldn't be drawing a government paycheck!
The government is grossly out of control
Too Many, over run with these people. Half aren't needed. period
Easy! 20%, was the figure used in the early 80s when I worked there as a GS'er. It's much less now.
3:46 Pretty much the only people that work on the shore and don't have EBT cards are Spanish speaking. I have yet to see one at a store pay with anything other than cash.
That's because that's what they work for; tax free cash. The other problem.
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All worthless.
Most insert thumb in a** and thats how they get paid, if you have ever called any agency they definately aren't using thier brains or doing work.
2 Million out of a population of 300 Million. Math is easy to figure out, it isn't the 2 million causing fiscal havoc...CONgress and their inability to provide a balance budget each/every year is the swamp that needs draining! That only takes place in the voting booth and boy do we need to vote starting next November!
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