12 Red States Responsible for Over 70% of U.S. Public Sector Job Losses in 2011
This may not exactly be breaking news, but numbers suggest that the ultraconservative state legislators pushing backwards legislation such as voter suppression are the same folks cutting public sector jobs at an alarming rate. The states that succumbed to the Tea Party takeover of 2010 have seen drastic job losses in the public sector and it does not appear to be coincidental.
Pennsylvania is a prime example of this new, unimproved Tea Party economy. Under Governor Tom Corbett, Republicans successfully shrunk the state’s workforce by three percent despite his promise to be a “jobs Governor” on the campaign trail:
Before the cuts, “Pennsylvania [had] the second lowest number of state workers per capita, already,” said Rebecca McNichol, Pennsylvania state director of the CLEAR Coalition. Yet, she says, “this past year the