[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by classicman

I didn't bring up Romney nor R's state govt's. In fact, I didn't blame anyone.
I just stated a fact as evidenced below. Something far different than the last three recessions.

I didn't claim that you blamed anyone. To get voters, politicians need to create the perception that they are good or the other person/party is bad.

If women highly represent public sector jobs and Republicans have been calling out for smaller government (on all levels), therefore cutting public sector jobs, Democrats have a easy argument to create the perception that Republican policies are bad for women.

• There was a 1.2 percent decline in 2011 in the number
of public employees, the largest yearly decline of the
Obama presidency and one of the largest on record.
Public employment declined 2.6 percent over the last
three years, the highest on record. This has had a
significant drag on the economy as a whole.

• Most of these losses were at the state level, but they
weren’t spread out evenly across all states. The 2011
losses were concentrated in just 12. The 11 states that the
Republicans took over during the 2010 midterm
elections – Alabama, Indiana, Maine, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – account for 40.5
percent of the total losses. By itself, Texas accounts for
an additional 31 percent of the total losses. The
remaining states make up the rest.

• The 11 states that the Republicans took over in 2010
laid off, on average, 2.5 percent of their government
workforces in a single year. This is compared to the
overall average of 0.5 percent for the rest of the states.

• In addition to the large losses in the public workforce,
the 11 states that went Republican passed and enacted
more reproductive freedom restrictions and voter
suppression laws than states with mixed or Democratic
legislatures. The push to target and lay off public
employees fits in with more traditional conservative
political policy priorities.

http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/si...cWorkforce.pdf