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Workers

No, President Obama Isn’t Handing Out Government Jobs

President Obama’s critics have consistently used the talking point that he is “only creating government jobs.” They argue that the private sector has been significantly hampered by his presidency and that most of the job growth under his administration has been in the public sector. The most famous iteration of this argument came in a 2012 roundtable debate on ABC News when Senator Rand Paul and economist Paul Krugman engaged in a heated debate on the sources of job growth under Obama.

CEPR and / July 02, 2015