1.7 percent: Increase in the number of private sector jobs nationally with the addition of 1.8 million jobs from 107.4 million in July 2010 to 109.2 million last month. -2.4 percent: Decline in government jobs nationally with the loss of 547,000 jobs from 22.6 million in July 2010 to 22 million last month.
927,000: The number of additional jobs the nation would have if the government jobs had increased at the same 1.7 percent rate that private sector jobs increased over the last year.
9.1 percent: The national unemployment rate in July.
8.5 percent: What the national unemployment rate would have been in July if 927,000 of the unemployed were instead working.
Source: Analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data
Note: The government jobs numbers do not include jobs of privately employed people doing work under government contracts. The video below shows an automated garbage collection system the city of North Olmsted began using this year. No longer to workers pick up the garbage in front of each house. The workers are not city employees, but the contract is paid for with taxdollars.
