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The privatization

Table 4

Total State Expenditure per $1,000 Personal Income, 1990­97

trend should

lead to reduced

Increase,

bureaucracies, not

State

1990­97

Rank

1997

Rank

1990

Rank

expanded ones.

U .S. Total

9.3%

---

$139.46

---

$127.64

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Greatest Budget Increase

New Hampshire

24.5%

1

$108.14

50

$86.84

50

West Virginia

22.2%

2

$216.62

3

$177.31

6

Oregon

22.1%

3

$169.60

14

$138.90

26

Mis s i s s i p p i

21.9%

4

$190.91

7

$156.66

15

Mis s o u r i

21.8%

5

$117.31

43

$96.33

47

Arkansas

21.0%

6

$163.08

18

$134.79

32

Texas

19.5%

7

$114.91

46

$96.13

48

P e n n s ylvania

17.5%

8

$133.05

33

$113.19

40

Florida

16.7%

9

$109.02

49

$93.39

49

Kentucky

15.1%

10

$171.32

12

$148.80

18

Smallest Budget Increase

Wyom ing

-10.7%

50

$205.77

4

$230.45

2

Alaska

-9.3%

49

$388.98

1

$429.04

1

N e vada

-8.2%

48

$123.83

40

$134.94

31

Arizona

-7.2%

47

$133.00

34

$143.33

20

North Dakota

-6.4%

46

$185.87

8

$198.64

4

South Dakota

-0.4%

45

$136.92

32

$137.42

29

Vermont

0.1%

44

$163.21

17

$163.00

9

Colorado

1.2%

43

$111.10

48

$109.74

44

New Jersey

1.8%

42

$119.02

42

$116.91

36

Washington

2.7%

41

$161.17

19

$156.96

14

1.91 percent per year).

year from 1990 to 1996: Nevada (5.58

· In the 1990s the growth of state and local

percent), Arizona (4.48 percent), Idaho

government bureaucracies is outpacing

(3.67 percent), Utah (3.49 percent), Texas

total nonfarm employment growth (1.48

(3.06 percent), and New Mexico (3.04

to 1.46 percent per year).

percent).

· State and local government employ-

While total U.S. state and local employees

ment has declined in two states: New

increased by 1.48 percent per year from 1990 to

York (0.88 percent per year) and Rhode

1996, as Table 5 shows, the record in individual

Island (0.20 percent); it has grown by

states varied widely from a high of 5.58 percent

less than 0.5 percent per year in three

per year in Nevada to New York's 0.88 percent

others: New Jersey (0.21 percent per

per year decline.

year), Massachusetts (0.28 percent),

and Michigan (0.42 percent).

· Six states increased their state and local

The increased growth in the size of state

bureaucracies by more than 3 percent per

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