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Excellent work. Just a quickie, does your figure for the US military include the number of National Guard on duty? I ask this as from what I understand many NG these days have been called up either for Iraq or the southern border.

Most of them will have been in civilian jobs (typically as I understand it, police or security such as prison staff - note the background of the Abu Grahib torturers) Has anybody does any analysis of whether employers replacing these NG with even temporary workers in fact represents the supposed jobs growth under Bush

by Londonbear on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 09:20:41 AM EST
I doubt NG are included. The effects of replacing NG with others hadn't occurred to me. How many NG are deployed?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 09:38:32 AM EST
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according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard

183,366 are on active duty

The world will end not with a Bang, but with a "do'oh"

by love and death on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 09:43:15 AM EST
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That would make a 0.05% difference.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 09:59:44 AM EST
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I wish i had a link, but I remember talking to my firms HR director.  She said that when someone is called up they report them as still employed with the firm.  And when someone is hired to replace them they must create a new "role" for them, b/c they cannot get rid of the military person from the org charts.

I'm not sure if this is just internal company policy or how it is reported to the labour department...

The world will end not with a Bang, but with a "do'oh"

by love and death on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 09:39:51 AM EST
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