March 29, 2024

Economix Blog: How Many Teachers Went Back to Work?

One thing that may be worth watching in the jobs report Friday is the numbers on state and local education jobs added during September. In other words, how many teachers came back to work this fall? To get that figure, look at the figures before seasonal adjustment.

FLOYD NORRIS

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There has been enough written about cutbacks in local government spending to make me wonder just how bad those figures will be.

In each of the past three Septembers, the number of added public education jobs was below 1.2 million, while it was above that figure in every September from 2004 through 2007.

The number for 2010 was 1.16 million, which was 9 percent below the 2006 figure of 1.27 million. The Census Bureau estimates that the number of school-age children was virtually the same in 2006 as 2010.

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