I think the more surprising thing about the headline is that Texas needs 3,500,000 employees to run its state government?
Well, it's a nice fantasy, but first line of story says, "of 3.5 million people."
They may be employees somewhere - but not all employees of the state.
Teachers, Workforce Commission, Employees Retirement of Texas.
All Texas employees, it's not private workforce.
The Texas workforce commission is an agency that attempts to place unemployed people in jobs. The records they maintain are largely not on government employees.
Okay, I believe you are correct, title edited.
Texas has a current population of 25 million, now compound that over decades (since it includes retiree databases).
The title is inaccurate. Many of the records where from State run retirement programs, but not everyone affected is/was a state employee. Texas is a big place. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas(one of the affected organizations) alone has over 1.3 million members.
Title now edited.
sarcasm ahead: they say everyone does it big in Texas...its more than likely the biggest leak in history..congrats Texas..