Speaker Boehner’s Math
February 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM EST
Recently, Speaker of the House John Boehner asserted: “…the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs since President Obama took office.” Other analysts have tried to find the source for this figure, but I thought of interest to see exactly how bad his math was. Figure 1 depicts Federal employment, and employment excluding postal [...]
