The Sacramento Bee reports:
California's government continues to grow despite a historic recession, budget cuts and employee layoff warnings, new data show.The bull market market in government hiring in California continues! You'll want to read the whole article.
About 4,000 more full-time workers drew state checks in June compared to a year before, with the biggest increases coming in prison hospitals, the state's unemployment agency and the Franchise Tax Board.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has initiated the elimination of 7,000 state jobs from the state's deficit-ridden general fund, but it is unclear if that will offset the overall state job gains over the past year. State officials don't know how many of those general fund workers will find jobs in state agencies financed by other funds.
