by Stephen Moore
Real Clear Politics
August jobs numbers showed impressive hiring gains in nearly every sector of the economy. None more so than government.
The public sector added 344,000 jobs last month – including 95,000 permanent state and local jobs, 11,000 permanent federal jobs, and 238,000 Census jobs — giving government workers the second-lowest unemployment rate in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And yet Democrats, under their latest $3 trillion-plus pandemic stimulus plan, want to dump almost $1 trillion into state and city coffers — the sector of the economy that LEAST needs more federal help.
Here’s why the left’s plan is so wrong-headed, starting with these August figures: