Georgia congressional delegation pitches Atlanta for Army Futures Command

[LTCM]

Depends on how they define government. State capital helps a lot if it's all levels of the blood suckers.


But yea, if you make a claim it's your job to back it up

[Moosehd]

Originally Posted by alco89

How could you say "Yes it is" #2 and then tell someone to look it up?

Well just going by the numbers here (States With Most Government Employees: Totals and Per Capita Rates) and here (Federal Employees By State), it's not true. We might be somewhere around 7th-9th. Just thought it was interesting.

Nabbing the Futures Command would be excellent.

If you say so bro

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by walker1962

No Georgia/Atlanta is not largest outside the D.C. area and didn't the Feds close a Fort McPherson south of Atlanta this century? I think a more competitive locale is San Antonio with several Army and USAF installations and the biggest military hospital outside of D.C.

Federal Executive Branch Employment by State





STATE
COUNT
CALIFORNIA
150,762
VIRGINIA
144,753
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
143,537
TEXAS
131,580
MARYLAND
119,816
FLORIDA
82,915
GEORGIA
71,486
PENNSYLVANIA
63,137
NEW YORK
62,011

This list is by State, not Metro area. Georgia is home to several massive Military bases that are nowhere near Atlanta. And with the exception of the huge Military bases around Hampton Roads, the numbers for Maryland & Virginia are mainly spillover from D.C.

With the exception of NASA, every single Federal Agency and the Federal Court for the Southeast are HQ'd here. If we aren't the second Metro for Federal employment, we are very near the top.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by Moosehd

Yes it is.

Originally Posted by Moosehd

You might have to look it up yourself

Originally Posted by Moosehd

If you say so bro

Have you considered entering C-Ds contest for most informative poster? There is money for your taking.

[alco89]

Originally Posted by JMatl

This list is by State, not Metro area. Georgia is home to several massive Military bases that are nowhere near Atlanta. And with the exception of the huge Military bases around Hampton Roads, the numbers for Maryland & Virginia are mainly spillover from D.C.

With the exception of NASA, every single Federal Agency and the Federal Court for the Southeast are HQ'd here. If we aren't the second Metro for Federal employment, we are very near the top.

Yea you almost have to throw out Virginia and Maryland because of the DC spillover, but even then other large population states (Florida, Cali, Texas) seem to have us beat. I thought we'd be higher because of the bases too.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by alco89

Yea you almost have to throw out Virginia and Maryland because of the DC spillover, but even then other large population states (Florida, Cali, Texas) seem to have us beat. I thought we'd be higher because of the bases too.

Yeah, but again the list posted was by State. Florida has to come through here for everything (except for NASA) before they can reach D.C. on any level.

I would love to see a breakdown by Metro area.

[alco89]

Originally Posted by JMatl

Yeah, but again the list posted was by State. Florida has to come through here for everything (except for NASA) before they can reach D.C. on any level.

I would love to see a breakdown by Metro area.

Oh I see.

Here's something that gives a list of metros' federal employees by % and raw numers at the bottom. Atlanta comes in at 7th here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.1b7d0b0917a0

Add in state and local government employees and maybe it would be #2 in the country, due to being a state capitol.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by alco89

Oh I see.

Here's something that gives a list of metros' federal employees by % and raw numers at the bottom. Atlanta comes in at 7th here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.1b7d0b0917a0

Add in state and local government employees and maybe it would be #2 in the country, due to being a state capitol.

Interesting, thanks for the link.

[Moosehd]

The gov awarded ATL the second largest amount of gov office space because we are the city too busy to hate so yes it would be great here

[krogerDisco]

Originally Posted by Moosehd

The gov awarded ATL the second largest amount of gov office space because we are the city too busy to hate so yes it would be great here

They picked Austin.

Army chooses Austin, Texas, for new Futures Command HQ - StarTribune.com