Regarding Barney Frank’s desire to ’stimulate’ local governments lest public employees find themselves out of work, the Committee on Ways and Means Republicans send out the following list of unemployment rates by industry:

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers – 18.7%
Construction – 18.2%
Leisure and hospitality – 11.5%
Manufacturing – 10.9%
Professional and business services – 10.4%
Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers (total) – 9.0%
Wholesale and retail trade – 8.7%
Transportation and utilities – 8.4%
Information – 7.4%
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction – 7.0%
Self employed and unpaid family workers – 6.5%
Financial activities – 6.0%
Education and health services – 3.8%
Government workers – 3.0%