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Brian Hamel
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Assistant Professor @UNT. Ph.D @UCLA. Distributive politics, public policy, and elections in the U.S. 🏳️‍🌈
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DOGE government workforce cuts have shaped the news. Communities across the county will be negatively affected by these cuts. Who will be affected most? The places that benefited most from the New Deal!

New working paper with @brianhamel.bsky.social: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fspol...
Image of abstract for working paper. We argue that places that benefited from New Deal infrastructure investments in the 1930s and 1940s continue to have the largest government workforces. Image of coefficient plots of the relationship between New Deal spending on public sector employment from 1940-2020. Communities that experienced New Deal investments continue to have more public sector employment as a percentage of their workforce. There is no evidence that these communities already had higher shares of government workers.
March 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM