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Show Government employment in Iron County increases 81.4 in decade Total government employment employ-ment in Iron County rose 81.47, during the past ten years according to an analysis analy-sis j u-1 completed by Utah Foundation, the privale research re-search oiganiuliim. According to. the report there were 1, 137 Federal, State, and local workers employed In Iron County during October, 1970. This compares with 792 government employees stationed sta-tioned within the county ten years earlier in October, I960 The Foundation study shows that government employment comprises 36.6 of the total nonagricultural workforce of Iron County and is equal to 11.8 of the total population of the county. For the state as a whole, government employment- makes up about 27.5'i of the nonagricultural workforce work-force and 9.5 of the total population. Utah ranks first among the contiguous forty-eight states and is second among all fifty states of the nation in the percentage per-centage of its population employed by government units. In October, 1970, the proportion of total population in Utah employed by government govern-ment was half again as high as the national average. The major reasons for the abnormally high percentage of government employment in Utah, according to the report, are the large proportion of state and the higher than average employment in education. ed-ucation. Actually, the number of nonedueational state and local employees per 10,000 population in Utah is approximately ap-proximately 10'. below the average for the nation. Utah is above the U.S. average in the proportion of state and local employment for education, highways, and of the other functions of government,, gov-ernment,, however, such a s hospitals, welfare, police, fire protection, sanitation, etc., Utah is well below the national nation-al average in the percentage of state and local employees. As an example, Utah is 21 below the national average aver-age in the ratio of police employees em-ployees to total population. During October, 1970, there were 17 police employees per 10,000 population, compared with 22 per 10,000 for the nation na-tion as a whole. Utah is even further below the U. S. average in the proportion pro-portion of welfare employees. There were 5.9 welfare employees em-ployees per 10,000 population in Utah, compared with a ratio ra-tio of 12.3 welafre employees per 10,000 population throughout through-out the nation. Government employment in Utah has multiplied about four and a half times over the past 30ears, according to the Foundation report. This compares with an increase of only two and a half times in total nonagricultural employ, ment during this same period. Foundation analysts note that a major factor in the rapid rap-id growth of government in Utah over the past three decades de-cades has been the establishment establish-ment and expansion of Federal Fed-eral defense installations during dur-ing World War II, the Korean War, and the Viet Nam War. A Viet Nam employment peak was reached in July, 1967, when there were 45,650 Federal Feder-al civilian employees in Utah. Since that time, Federal employment em-ployment in the state has declined, de-clined, and in October, 1970, .stood approximately 6,400 below be-low the 1967 peak. |