Public Authority employment trends

I had a story on Monday outlining how the state’s vast and often opaque system of Public Authorities seems to be curtailing jobs, along with the rest of the public sector, due largely to cuts at some of the biggest operations.
Here’s a spreadsheet detailing employment numbers:

  1. jdunphy says:

    interestingly enough, if another business dropped 10,000+ jobs it would be national news. It is actually promoted when it is the heads of public employees. Gotta love this country.

  2. Chip D says:

    jdunphy, going from 80K to 140K over 4 years is job loss? Talk about perspective!

  3. jdunphy says:

    first, the numbers indicated as that four year increase are quite possibly due to better tracking of authorities as more authorities reported in. There has been article after article in the last few years talking about how authorities, until recently, havent had to account for much of anything until now. 2009-2010 was when the pressure for these people to report and thus the spike. Also great fuel for people like you to use misinformation as if some sort of huge spike in hiring had occured rather than the reality that many of those jobs have existed for years.

  4. Fracman says:

    I kind of like adding cheap CNG gas-powered cars. The green tradeoff in exhaust fumes would be monumental. How’d we get on this topic when we were talking about Authorities and their employment fill-levels anyway?

  5. Nina Hartley says:

    The authorities are bloated with emploees that were given jobs in return for politician’s campaign help.

  6. I am a strong opponent of shale gas, shale oil and tar sands extraction. I am the Green Party candidate in the NY-21 race. However, I did not write the comment found above. I am hopeful that whoever is using my name to post comments will stop doing this.

  7. Nina Hartley says:

    That’s frack-ed up.

  8. jdunphy says:

    Mr. Hassig, seems to me as much as politicians lie and deceive etc these days, one would look inside your opponents camp to find who is using your name. That being said. I know nothing about you but perhaps ALL politicians need to step up to the plate and chill out with the lies and deception of voters.

    Its pretty sad that no matter which switch i flip in that booth, I feel like ive just elected a liar and a con artist.

  9. Unhappy PEF Member says:

    What about the other article concerning the State hiring folks from overseas and bringing them here on special visa’s…. From all the ads about the candidates one would get the impression the republicans and thier evil friends like Bain capitol sent jobs over seas…we find out that the government brings the folks over here from overseas to take jobs that Americans can do? So again we always have to choose the lesser of two evils every couple years…..This time around the lesser of two evils is Romney…until we can get a better thrid party that will unify us again The current folks are not working together, not even letting the other side speak… so we need to demand that both sides get to input ideas and stop bringing folks from over seas to do jobs we can do!!!!

  10. ResidentX says:

    Unhappy PEF Member, you are crazy if you think Romney is the lesser of two evils. If you make less than $250,000 youre a fool to vote for Romney. You might as well just start writing checks to random major corporations or setup your check for auto deposit to banks and oil companies.

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