Saturday, September 08, 2012

Unemployment Drops to 5.1 Percent—For Government Workers; Lowest Among All Industries

The ultimate leftist Utopia would be every man, women and child on the government payroll. You know, kinda like the  USSR back in the day.
(CNSNews.com) - There was good news for American workers in August—if government was their employer.
The unemployment rate for government wage and salaries workers dropped from 5.7 percent in July to 5.1 percent in August. At the same time, the number of government wage and salary workers counted as unemployed dropped by 123,000 people from 1,182,000 in July to 1,059,000 in August.

The overall national unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in August.

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