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DallasNE

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13. Since Governments Contract Out

Reply to ProSense (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 12:50 PM

Feb 2013

A good deal of their work and they are contracting out less of that work it means that the BLS job numbers for public employees actually understate those job losses because contracted workers are not included in the public sector report.

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