In the midst of the Second Great Depression, government employment should be increasing, but in the US it's actually decreasing. (2 Graphs)

from David Ruccio

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You’d think that, in the midst of the Second Great Depression, government employment would be increasing.

But it’s not. It’s actually shrinking.

It’s shrinking at the state and local levels, as can be seen in the chart above. And it’s shrinking at the federal level, as can be seen in the chart below:

Clearly, mainstream economics and politics in the United States have moved backward—back to a time before Keynes and before the New Deal.

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