The Corner

Get a Government Job, Series #4,291

I keep telling you.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector, according to a USA Today analysis of federal data.

Federal employees making $100,000 or more jumped from 14 percent to 19 percent during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

(Full article here.)

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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