The Wake County Public School System remains one of North Carolina's largest employers even though layoffs are taking a toll on the number of bodies.
In the state's recently released Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, Wake was ranked the state's ninth-largest employer with between 15,000 and 19,999 employees.
Before the recent layoffs, Wake was listed in the state's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report as the eighth-largest employer with between 20,000 and 24,999 employees.
Wake's workforce has grown along with the student enrollment as it's now the state's largest school district with 146,687 students. In 2001, Wake was the state's eighth-largest employer with 10,000 to 14,999 employees.
Locally, the latest school district Comprehensive Annual Financial Report shows it's the second-largest employer in Wake County with 17,572 employees this year. That's up from 2002, when the school district was the third-largest employer in the county with 12,500 employees.
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Not fantastic news...
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:28 — Bob_SconceHere are the top 10:
So, about one out of every 18 people is employed by State & Federal government. That's scary by itself.
Interestingly, the rankings haven't changed by much since 2001 -- the only major change is that IBM has fallen off that list.
It's also a little disconcerting that, despite employing 4.5% of the workforce, the State couldn't find anybody to correctly spell "Comprehensive" (on cover page).
It sure won't be come budget time
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 15:45 — FSandYOULike the confused Stan Norwalk used to say, gonna be thousands of teachers fired come budget time.
Good news is the new board will the credit for doing it.
Don't know why you would...
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 14:34 — bpuli9999call it scary. Given all the state and federal services that folks line up for everyday.
The spelling mistake is funny. Along those lines, looks like they used a crappy piece of software like MS Word - the typesetting is awful too.
Because...
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 14:42 — Bob_SconceThe bigger the public sector is, the more it has to tax the private sector to pay for itself. Yet, the private sector is where nearly all economic growth originates.
Not trying to suggest that the state should stop providing needed services. But, the fact that so many people are relying on it for such services is a sign of our economy's weakness.
How On Earth...
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 22:30 — chaboardYet the private sector is where nearly all economic growth originates.
....do you guys convince yourselves of this kind of pure nonsense?
Put aside lack of grounding of such an idea in economic theory (there's no actual *mechanism* by which one can reasonably argue that a dollar spent on private production is necessarily or probabilistically more productive than the same dollar spent in the public sector). Consider that even without a theoretical basis posited, such an effect is an easily testable hypothesis in practice.
If true there would be strong (very strong) reverse correlations between growth rates and the relative size of the public sector. Such correlations DO NOT EXIST AT ALL!!! They do not exist now across the nations of the world AND they do not exist across time looking at the history of the US.
A willingness to take such nonsensical beliefs as gospel with near-religious fervor and promote ideology over evidence is one of the primary reasons that conservatives are such absolute disasters in real world governance when handed the reigns of power and that we liberals have to spend all our time cleaning up your messes!
You're missing my point...
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 23:57 — Bob_SconceWhich is this:
Look at the change in living standards that we've experienced in the past, say, 100 years: air travel, automobiles, computers, life-saving drugs, modern dentistry, increased home sizes and an abundance of food that is generally far safer than its 100-year-old counterpart.
All of those things, with scant exception, came from people pursuing profit in the private sector. The reason that we, as a society, are so much better off than our ancestors were, is because of the profit-seeking activities of the private sector. The Internet may have started as a DARPA project, but it was companies like Time Warner, Verizon and Level 3 who saw the profit opportunity and brought it to our doorsteps -- their investment is several orders of magnitute larger than the government's.
Of course, only a fool would assert that the government has never done anything productive or that the private sector has never responded to government regulation. But, by and large, big improvements in living standards come from the private sector, not the public.
As to why you don't see that huge correllation, that's largely due to trade. If every country had to come up with their own innovations, then the countries with the fewest innovators would be in trouble.
Are you an economist?
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 23:41 — nmoskalAre you an economist? How much have you studied economics?
Amen!!!
Thu, 12/22/2011 - 22:49 — virginiadareAmen!!!