Seasonally-adjusted data pulled from U.S. Department of Labor reports show that there are nearly twice as many Americans working for federal, state and local government than there are working in the manufacturing industry.
Preliminary numbers for the month of August, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, place the amount of government workers at about 22 million, or approximately 21,995,000. The number of manufacturing jobs totaled about 12.3 million, or approximately 12,329,000.
