{"id":330758,"date":"2021-08-26T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/u-s-local-government-hiring-picks-up-after-touching-two-decade-low\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:59:00","slug":"u-s-local-government-hiring-picks-up-after-touching-two-decade-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/u-s-local-government-hiring-picks-up-after-touching-two-decade-low\/","title":{"rendered":"#: U.S. local government hiring picks up after touching two-decade low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6d7d918e88\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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Riquier<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#: U.S. local government hiring picks up after touching two-decade low<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_municipalities_adopt_austerity_measures_its_hard_for_the_economy_to_grow_robustly\"><\/span>\n  When municipalities adopt austerity measures, it\u2019s hard for the economy to grow robustly<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000388628\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div 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past few months after hitting a 19-year low in the spring.<\/p>\n<p> Governments hired 230,000 people in July, according to the Labor Department, marking the fifth-straight monthly increase. That\u2019s still a small step toward regaining the roughly 1.3 million jobs shed in 2020 at the height of the pandemic panic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetMediaIllustration\n            inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:38.57142857142858%;\" data-subtype=\"photo\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=540&amp;size=2.5963488843813387 540w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=620&amp;size=2.5963488843813387 620w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=639&amp;size=2.5963488843813387 639w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=700&amp;size=2.5963488843813387 700w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=700&amp;size=2.5963488843813387&amp;pixel_ratio=1.5 1050w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=700&amp;size=2.5963488843813387&amp;pixel_ratio=2 1400w, https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=700&amp;size=2.5963488843813387&amp;pixel_ratio=3 2100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 979px) 620px, (max-width: 1299px) 540px, 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-391909?width=700&amp;height=270\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Source_St_Louis_Fed_Labor_Department\"><\/span>Source: St. Louis Fed, Labor Department<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       Public finance professionals watch municipal hiring carefully because it was such a big drag on the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008.  State and local governments didn\u2019t stop shedding jobs until late 2012, a year and a half after the recession ended, and didn\u2019t regain their pre-Great Recession levels until late 2019, as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Many analysts believe that state and local government austerity was responsible for the slow, tepid growth in the wake of that downturn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read next: <\/strong>The best job-market fix you\u2019ve never heard of: \u2018occupational licensing reform\u2019 may be having a moment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Andrea Riquier\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/andrea-riquier\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARiquier\",\"text\":\"@ARiquier\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:ariquier@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"ariquier@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Andrea_Riquier\"><\/span>Andrea Riquier<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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