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Are you telling me they didn't all go work at Liberty University?
Yes, you're right that the other sectors are not very encouraging. Do you have any idea what kinds of jobs account for that huge pink bar?
I have an inkling but not hard data. I think a lot of it is support staff like home health aides, nursing and physician assistant roles, and various kinds of therapists.
These come from my own observations as someone who interacts with a lot of college students and sees the kinds of careers they head into (including outside my formal duties, since there are a lot of college students at my church). I'd say more than a third of them are going into some type of healthcare field
If that's right, then I think gaining those kinds of jobs in exchange for government bureaucrats is a huge gain for society.
Yes, perhaps. But I don't think it signals economic health either. It may signal an over-diagnosed, over-medicalized, and generally physically unhealthy society. Not to mention, it's within a sector with heavy heavy misallocation of resources due to government being the biggest funder.
No disagreement there.
Everything declining except health and education is pretty concerning. I mentioned in #1370195 how health is like maintenance/repair, and that this means we're just spending a lot of money in maintenance/repair.
(Not to mention how health/education are sectors so heavily influenced by government, that this doesn't actually look like a shrink of the public sector, to me. It just means we've reduced the number of people directly employed by the government, but not necessarily the number of people who are indirectly supported through government funds)