Employment in the Federal Government has not followed the same course as spending. The share of the civilian labor force employed by the Federal government shows a much clearer World War II displacement than does the share of expenditures in GNP. This is illustrated in Fig. 1 which plots Federal civilian employment as a share of the civilian labor force from 1908 to 1990.
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