WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has told advisers he wants to let 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the coming budget year.
The U.S. has accepted only about 1,500 Syrians since civil war broke out more than four years ago.
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.
