{"id":2163,"date":"2025-05-14T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:38:52","slug":"myth-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/2025\/05\/14\/myth-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Vs Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MYTH:<\/strong> The federal workforce has become bloated due to a substantial increase in civilian employees over the last several decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REALITY:\u00a0Since 1968, the size if the federal civilian workforce has decreased by 2.9%, while the private-sector labor force has increased by about 140%, and the U.S. population has increased by about 77%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/?s=myth+reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more Myth vs Reality topics from narfe.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOGE claims that the Federal workforce has grown too &#8220;bloated&#8221;. Know the truth!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/04\/HandsOffBainbridge1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}