Interesting statistics

News from FOX Business. After the hiring of 411,000 temporary Census workers in May, the total Census workforce has now increased to 564,000.

To put this in some context, we now have more Census workers that new have workers in the following industries /sectors:
- Oil & gas extraction (165,700)
- Electronic & appliance stores (480,600)
- Air transportation (456,300)
- Rail transportation (216,300)
- Utilities (557,400)

We have almost as many Census workers as we have workers in the following industries/sectors:
- Residential construction (580,800)
- U.S. postal service (657,700)
- Child care (861,800)
- Accounting / bookkeeping (899,800)

All of this data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, “THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION –MAY 2010,” June 4, 2010,

My point. Is this the way to run the economy?

George Dagnino, PhD
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