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  Job Growth Where Bush Didn’t Want It
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Last EditedServo  Feb 10, 2008 09:51pm
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News DateSunday, February 10, 2008 03:50:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionIt is not exactly a distinction that he had in mind, but seven years into his presidency, George W. Bush is in line to be the first president since World War II to preside over an economy in which federal government employment rose more rapidly than employment in the private sector.

That is not because federal government jobs have risen at an unusually rapid rate over the last seven years — although the increase did reverse a substantial decline under Mr. Bush’s most recent predecessor, Bill Clinton.
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