The local government dropoff is very confusing to me. Is there data about which types of roles fell out? Civil service protections for many local government employees are strong, and CARES, ESSER, and American Rescue Plan Local Fiscal Recovery Funds have propped up cities, counties, and school districts - with folks worried about fiscal cliffs & associated layoffs when funds run out. Is this primarily bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and community center workers who lost jobs with limited summer school, virtual school, and closed community centers? The absence of those places also likely played a part in the spike.
It's a great question and I have not seen a study on this. Assuming that cuts were proportional to labor force size, many supports were removed--a huge number of local government jobs are school-based, and many of the 'clerk' jobs and admin jobs are social workers connecting people to service. I can't get the graphic to paste here, but if you look at the 7th slide it breaks down local government jobs by type: https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2021/occupational-employment-and-wages-in-state-and-local-government/home.htm
Thanks! I think the precipitous drop in college and community college enrollment - disproportionately felt by Black and Latino youth - probably had a similar effect in terms of removing ppl from supportive settings
That is such a great point. From Inside Higher ED in August, "Community college enrollment rose 0.5 percent this spring, a gain of about 22,000 students nationally. That’s compared to spring 2022 and following a plunge of 10.1 percent in 2021 and 8.2 percent in 2022." A quick look around in ArticlesPlus and GoogleScholar I don't see any studies. Definitely an intriguing idea.
The local government dropoff is very confusing to me. Is there data about which types of roles fell out? Civil service protections for many local government employees are strong, and CARES, ESSER, and American Rescue Plan Local Fiscal Recovery Funds have propped up cities, counties, and school districts - with folks worried about fiscal cliffs & associated layoffs when funds run out. Is this primarily bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and community center workers who lost jobs with limited summer school, virtual school, and closed community centers? The absence of those places also likely played a part in the spike.
It's a great question and I have not seen a study on this. Assuming that cuts were proportional to labor force size, many supports were removed--a huge number of local government jobs are school-based, and many of the 'clerk' jobs and admin jobs are social workers connecting people to service. I can't get the graphic to paste here, but if you look at the 7th slide it breaks down local government jobs by type: https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2021/occupational-employment-and-wages-in-state-and-local-government/home.htm
Thanks! I think the precipitous drop in college and community college enrollment - disproportionately felt by Black and Latino youth - probably had a similar effect in terms of removing ppl from supportive settings
That is such a great point. From Inside Higher ED in August, "Community college enrollment rose 0.5 percent this spring, a gain of about 22,000 students nationally. That’s compared to spring 2022 and following a plunge of 10.1 percent in 2021 and 8.2 percent in 2022." A quick look around in ArticlesPlus and GoogleScholar I don't see any studies. Definitely an intriguing idea.
brilliant and funny; two of my favorite things