This advantage may be more apparent than real, because the large work force required to man it may not be so readily transferable.
Mayor McPherson provided a copy of the letter from the company's president and said the governor's office was sending a team to meet with the 65 local workers to "fit them all back into the work force, real soon".
"The real problem is the work force," Bauer said during the first Republican gubernatorial debate on Friday.
In a report issued by his office on Nov. 16, Senator Coburn pointed out that the G.A.O.'s budget has been cut by 13 percent in real terms since 1992 and its work force reduced by 40 percent — more than 2,000 people.
The teachers' union is never going to fall in love with charter schools because a vast majority of them are not unionized, and they have real financial advantages because their work force is younger and more transient and their payrolls, pensions and medical costs are lower.
The contracts, which allow the government to hire private employees for short-term assignments, have long frustrated federal employees who argue that private contractors are better paid for the same work and that such arrangements allow federal authorities to hide the real size of the government work force.
Still, many have tried to make the best of their situation, portraying their disappointing experience in the work force as real-world seasoning that might appeal to employers.
Earnings for the latest quarter include a charge of $24 million from work force and real-estate restructuring, as well as gains of $9 million on equity investments and $6 million from related tax adjustments.
The real work of building and training a diverse work force takes years of engagement and effort.
Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force.
