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For the past four decades, the portion of the public workforce belonging to unions has held remarkably steady, at a little more than one in three.
Christie is pitting one set of middle-class workers against the other, perhaps in the hope that private-sector unions will ultimately turn on their brethren in the public workforce, or that the public unions will turn on one another.
It may just be that Christie has stumbled onto the public-policy issue of our time, which is how to bring the exploding costs of the public workforce in line with reality.
The state has at least three major budget problems related to the costs of the public workforce, all of which contribute to a shortfall that the state's legislative accounting office projects to be almost $11 billion this year — an amount that's more than a third of the state's total budget.
These measures have also deepened the racial disparity in the public workforce, which, along with the growing racial wealth gap that deprives nonwhite Americans of stability and mobility, transforms Trump's assault on the Pendleton Act from merely historically ignorant and potentially corrupt into something more.
A public-sector-oriented approach has proved to have limited popular appeal, particularly at a time when many in the private sector regard the public workforce as an oppressive and overcompensated privileged class.
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Indeed, protecting such ineffective workers has the effect of weakening the overall public workforce.
Losses of graduates to overseas migration and to the local private sector prompted us to explore the reasons for these losses from the Fiji public workforce.
But those states include major population centers like California and New York that represent large part of the nation's public workforce.
This constituted 14% of the estimated overall public workforce in these districts.
Behind the growing cash shortfalls: the aging of California's public workforce.
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