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Research Brief: Black Workers and the Public Sector

November 30, 2011 Comments off

Research Brief: Black Workers and the Public Sector (PDF)
Source: Center for Labor Research and Education (University of California-Berkeley)

The standoff in Wisconsin highlights the fiscal crisis facing state and local governments across the country. Required by law to balance their budgets, politicians in state legislatures, school boards, and city councils are faced with the choices of cutting public services and laying off workers, raising revenue, or some combination of the two. They are deciding these choices in an economic context where the Great Recession caused the deficits and any deficit-reduction option exerts a drag on the recovery. Since January 2009, state and local governments have laid off 429,000 workers. As governments contemplate additional layoffs, it is important to note that few commentators have examined the racial implications of this reduction in government employment.

Categories: Center for Labor Research and Education (University of California-Berkeley), government and politics, labor, race
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