Cities’ Work Forces Up 26,857 Last Year
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The nation’s cities added 26,857 full-time workers to their payrolls last year, bringing the total of city employees to 2,467,000, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
It was the third straight year of increasing city employment, following declines in 1981 and 1982 after elimination of the federally financed Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which had provided many local jobs.
City government employment peaked in 1980 at 2,561,000, the bureau said.
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