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State and local is even bigger. Id guess 600k employees of New York state/county/city/town/authority payrolls.

Mass employment businesses aren’t common. I visited a gold ball factory once… there were about 3 people packing boxes and one dude fiddling with the machines.

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Is "gold ball" some kind of industry term or classification of a factory? Or are they literally producing spheres of gold?

EDIT: oooh, you probably meant "golf ball". I was not being purposely difficult, just dumb

I apologize I intended golf ball!

I would imagine that internal controls would require more employees of a factory making balls from gold! :)

I was going to say, I've looked at local statistics before for my area and found out the city and local municipalities have a ton of employees. Typically the biggest employer in your city is going to be your city, possibly your county.

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