Public sector jobs do not create wealth they redistribute wealth. Some public sector jobs are necessary.
During the Great Depression FDR created the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps on Apr 10, 1933) and other public works projects -- my uncle was 19, single and got a job in on of the projects. The TVA is another example: This act of May 18, 1933, created the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap hydroelectric power -- with negligible carbon footprint.
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Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) (1973)
In December 1973, in a time of high unemployment and after considerable negotiation with the Nixon administration, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). This legislation consolidated a variety of federal job programs that had been created during the 1960s. Community action programs such as job training, the Job Corps, and the Neighborhood Youth Corps were brought together with programs from the 1962 Manpower Development and Training Act and the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector program. Designed to move program control away from the federal government, CETA designated states and local communities as “prime sponsors” of program activities. Funds flowed to the states in block grants, and local administrative units were given considerable decision-making power over the types of training provided, the groups of individuals served, and the institutions offering training and other services.
The CETA program used two basic strategies for increasing employment of low-wage individuals:
- See more at: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) (1973)
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However, CETA was an 'emergency' law during times of high employment.
The CCC and the TVA were works projects during the world crisis of the Great Depression
Today, the USA has statistical full employment. In the Euro area there is 9.3% unemployment.
The is no imminent employment emergency in most EU countries -- there are comatose economies that cannot create new economic growth.
Germany 3.9%
Czech Republic 4.4%
France 9.6%
Italy 11.1%
The economy is the USA is rather stagnant or declining in old-line industries.
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea30.htm
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
A-30. Unemployed persons by occupation
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat25.htm
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
ANNUAL AVERAGES
25. Unemployed persons by occupation and sex
Construction and mining suck but so what? Adapt or die -- the world won't wait for anyone, it never has
