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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1976
Page
5
Census figures show 2.9 million federal workers and 11.8 million state and local employees in 1974 while the population neared 212 million. From 1965 to 1974 federal payroll up 16 percent and state local payroll up about 48 percent as total public employees rose 40 percent.
A Washington AP report notes that up to half of Americans rely on some level of government for income. It cites Social Security retirement and disability benefits, civil service and military payrolls, welfare under Aid to Dependent Children, and various pension programs totaling nearly 97 million people when overlapping categories are counted.
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