{"id":30151,"date":"2012-09-08T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/a-tale-of-two-administrations-and-employment.html"},"modified":"2012-09-08T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T19:15:54","slug":"a-tale-of-two-administrations-and-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/a-tale-of-two-administrations-and-employment.html","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Administrations (and employment)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new in these graphs, but worth noting: \u00a0the first four years of Obama&#39;s presidency have been substantially better for private job growth than the first four of the Bush administration. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration, on the other hand, saw much great increase in <i>public<\/i> job growth in its first four years &#8212; presumably somewhat due to homeland security, etc., post-9\/11. \u00a0Public sector jobs have\u00a0plummeted\u00a0under Obama (belying the whole &quot;huge growth of government&quot; meme), but largely due to government austerity measures on the federal and state levels, usually led by the GOP (too often abetted by the Dems).<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F09%2F08%2Fopinion%2F090812krugman1%2F090812krugman1-blog480.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/08\/employment-in-two-administrations\/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&#038;seid=auto'>Employment in Two Administrations<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4AtCGeeXxEF' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new in these graphs, but worth noting: \u00a0the first four years of Obama&#39;s presidency have been substantially better for private job growth than the first four of the Bush administration. \u00a0 The Bush administration, on the other hand, saw much great increase in public job growth in its first four years &#8212; presumably somewhat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/a-tale-of-two-administrations-and-employment.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tale of Two Administrations (and employment)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/net-job-growth-and-politicking.html","url_meta":{"origin":30151,"position":0},"title":"Net job growth and politicking","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-12 8:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"This talking point by the GOP won't hunt. 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