Census Product Update
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October 30, 2009
New State and Local Employment Data Available
8.9 million education workers accounted for more than half of the 16.7 million state and local government full-time equivalent employees nationwide in 2008. Besides education, some of the other employment categories that contributed the largest numbers to the state and local government employee workforce were hospitals (998,000), police protection (952,000) and corrections (748,000). Other employment categories include streets and highways, public welfare, health, judicial-legal, financial-administration and fire protection. Visit our web site for viewable and downloadable tables now!
