Legal Commentary

Where the Jobs Are (and Aren?t)

By Jonathan H. Adler

From an op-ed in today?s WSJ by Stephen Moore comes a startling statistic: ?More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined.?

UPDATE: As is clear from the comments, there are many ways to spin the significance of this statistic. I found it significant as much if not more for what it says about productivity in many traditional economic sectors than for what it says about the size of government.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).