{"id":1732,"date":"2017-10-04T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2017-10-04T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:40:37","slug":"how-big-is-the-federal-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/how-big-is-the-federal-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is the federal workforce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/10\/03\/how-big-is-the-federal-workforce-much-bigger-than-you-think\/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-fedgov%3Ahomepage%2Fcard\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WAPO, Oct 3, 2017 &#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How big is the federal workforce?<\/p>\n<p>Much bigger than you think.<\/p>\n<p>A new study on \u201cThe True Size of Government,\u201d by Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University, says the government\u2019s \u201cblended\u201d workforce is 7 to 9 million strong \u2014 including contractors and grantees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAPO, Oct 3, 2017 &#8230; How big is the federal workforce? Much bigger than you think. A new study on \u201cThe True Size of Government,\u201d by Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University, says the government\u2019s \u201cblended\u201d workforce is 7 to 9 million strong \u2014 including contractors and grantees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,17],"tags":[464,478,775,780,884,1092,1167,1278,1332,1890],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1732","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-science","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-congress","12":"post_tag-contractors","13":"post_tag-government","14":"post_tag-grantees","15":"post_tag-irs","16":"post_tag-military-personnel","17":"post_tag-national-treasury-employees-union","18":"post_tag-personnel","19":"post_tag-postal-service","20":"post_tag-workforce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}