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It's been a definite hit, no argument there. What a lot of people don't know is how much money gets passed down to states and then to local government like cities and counties and it's all tied to fed distribution.
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I think the big downstream hit will be in public universities, but I'm not sure how long that will take.
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State government jobs are dominated by jobs at state universities, which are huge employers. For example, the University of California system employs 267,000 faculty and staff (data via University of California), nearly half of the state government’s total employees of 551,000 (data via BLS).
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Oh, for some reason I expected those to be counted separately.
University admins got hammered by a change in how grant funds can be spent, plus a ton of grants got canceled.
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I imagine some of the state government job losses are a result of losing federal grants or other contracts.