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Brian Kemp: “If you take out higher education and you look at the number…”

Featuring: Brian Kemp, Republican | Governor of Georgia

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Governor Brian Kemp Discusses Georgia's Business Climate and U.S. Politics at Munich Event

Published | Video Starts at 11:41

You know, I know they have some layoffs at the CDC and other things, but, you know, government can stand a little right sized. And I know from the state of Georgia's perspective, If you take out higher education and you look at the number of people that we have in state government, it's close to what we had back in 2008. But we're doing more work because we got more efficient through technology. We're paying our people More. (11:41–11:50)

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Asserts that Georgia's state government workforce size, excluding higher education, is similar to its size in 2008.

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